Educators often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone something that’s not mandated such as cursive handwriting. In several national ...

The decline of cursive handwriting was bemoaned even before the rise of the personal computer. Some schools still teach it, but others have long since left the curly “Qs” and artful “As ...

As it stands, just 24 states require that cursive is taught in the classroom. But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 students in the U.S. Several states in recent years have ...

Common Core teaching standards emphasized keyboard typing by 2010. However, 14 states still require cursive to be taught in schools, regardless of how little it is used in daily life. In 2023 ...

Lost in the hoopla is the simple truth that there are no definitive or absolute answers about whether, how or why to teach cursive in schools. Moreover, cursive instruction is one of many ...

The legislation aims to require public schools to teach cursive writing, which disappeared from schools in 2008. Sign up for our Newsletters Rebecca Synder, a mother of two elementary-aged ...

The Palmer method script has hardly changed since it was first introduced—it’s the same form of cursive used today. The Palmer Method was temporarily shelved when educators decided to teach ...

The move also reignited the question of whether K-12 schools should teach cursive. The gap in cursive education has been a source of debate in state legislatures across the country in recent years ...

If this is not an indication that we need to teach cursive handwriting in school, I don’t know what is. It started as given name, middle initial, last name. When I got my driver’s license ...

Shrewsbury spent a lot of time figuring out a way to teach cursive to a new generation of students. "People learn best with patterns. They learn more easily when they can see how things fit together.