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 ...

It seems as if students are learning cursive ever less. The generation of college students I now teach not only never knew the 20th century and think of CDs as quaint, but mostly they do not write ...

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 ...

A Werklund School of Education Teaching and Learning Support Grant ... to succeed with the academic written demands of Grade 4. Cursive handwriting was reintroduced on the Ontario Grade 3 ...

PAM KELLER: When cursive comes up in some kinds of old documents, family letters, they struggle to read it. INSKEEP: So she started teaching cursive to her students. KELLER: Some kids find it hard ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that requires the teaching of cursive writing across the state. California Assembly Bill 446 amends the state's education code to include ...

Most millennials and the generations before them spent time learning cursive handwriting in school. Why has that changed? Why is the teaching of it frowned upon in schools? What is the impact on ...

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.

Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring the teaching of cursive or "joined italics" handwriting in grades one through six. While grandparents' sprawling handwriting on birthday cards or treasured ...