The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn Datchuk.

But within the past decade, statewide cursive requirements have been trending upward. In 2016, 14 states required schools to teach cursive writing. During the 2018-2019 school year, that number ...

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 ...

But, none have been successful. Illinois, however, is one of 23 states that legally require all schools to teach cursive. 5 on Your Side checked in with the Illinois State Board of Education to ...

Specifically, some lawmakers want to make the teaching of cursive writing mandatory for public schools, because of the complaints of a few grandparents. Let’s be realistic. Children today are ...

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 ...

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 ...