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 ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

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 ...

In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cursive instruction will be required at Iowa's public schools starting in the upcoming school year under new standards adopted by the Iowa Department of Education in June. Why it matters: While ...

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 ...