Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.

But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 students in the United States. Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting, including ...

Joe Adams, R-Wayne/Pike, introduced a bill that would require cursive to be taught in Pennsylvania’s public schools. Adams said he believes handwriting is not only fundamental but also necessary.

John Lopez, 55, a fourth-grade teacher in Pomona, is a true believer: “Cursive handwriting helps to preserve the analog soul that no digital font can represent. Cursive writing shows warmth and ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

is that so much writing now takes place on the keyboard that cursive, designed for handwriting, is no longer essential. I remember one of my daughters coming home in second grade in 2016 and ...

The handwriting is characterized by perfectly slanted and liquid shapes and it was meant to be easy to read while still remaining attractive. Spencerian cursive was the preferred writing style of ...

As politics editor Rick Rouan explained on the podcast: “Some recent research suggests that cursive handwriting forces kids to just slow down, think about word spelling and sentence structure ...

Meanwhile, there are plenty of tools that can read cursive handwriting with relatively high accuracy, not all of which rely on artificial intelligence. And no, it's not a coincidence that they ...

Angela McKnight and Shirley Turner would require school districts to incorporate instruction on cursive handwriting into the curriculum for students in kindergarten through fifth grade.

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 ...

That led to a pushback and today at least 14 states require that cursive handwriting be taught, including California in 2023. But it doesn’t mean that they actually use it in real life.