Since 2010, 45 states - including Arizona - and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core standards, which do not require cursive instruction but leave it up to the individual states ...

A Florida bill that would have required cursive handwriting in grades two through five won't be going to Gov. Ron DeSantis for a signature after it failed to receive any consideration in the Senate.

Once a staple of classrooms and correspondence, cursive—a style of handwriting with joined letters and flourishes that put simple print to shame—is on the wane. Or is it? One look at TikTok or ...

Though it's considered an art, cursive writing can do wonders for your handwriting. Practicing cursive improves the look of writing to a great extent and also improves cognitive skills and motor ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

Turns out it’s mostly a lost art. Printing and typing? No problem. But cursive writing has truly become the hieroglyphics of this generation. I specifically remember being a fourth grader with ...

The ability to read cursive handwriting is helpful but not essential. “We create missions where we ask volunteers to help us transcribe or tag records in our catalog,” Isaacs said. To ...

Handwriting is disappearing at scale; however, there are no lunatic conspiracies against cursive handwriting or even printing English. I would argue that regarding human history of handwriting, we may ...

But there are still cohorts of students whose education didn’t emphasize handwriting and cursive—who aren’t familiar with the curls and swoops and swirls. And a body of marketing research ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...