A bill that would mandate cursive throughout the entire state is winding its way through Harrisburg, sponsored by Republican ...

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

Context: 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.

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents are in need of transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast ...

Cursive may be easier to write than print — for many, at least — but it’s harder to read. And besides, because so many cursive letters differ significantly from their printed equivalents, ...

A Kentucky law that passed in the spring of 2024 will require elementary schools to teach cursive writing, starting with the ...

But as many states adopted the Common Core State Standards, cursive disappeared for some states in 2010 and 2011. According to the National Education Association, dated in 2022, it appears that more ...

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s cursive requirement is worth the paper it’s written on.