A bill for it to be taught in schools heads to the state Senate after passing last week in the House by a 195-8 margin.

Cursive is making a comeback. This fall, Georgia’s elementary students will officially dive back into the art of handwriting ...

Last week, the Pennsylvania House passed a bill that would require cursive handwriting to be taught in all public and private ...

Last week, the Pennsylvania House passed a bill that would require cursive handwriting to be taught in all public and private ...

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

Cursive could be making a comeback in the Keystone State. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a penmanship bill ...

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 ...

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” McKnight said.

I’ve since been down the rabbit hole of cursive writing resources. Not wanting to make the students feel like 8-year-olds again, I did find cursive writing workbooks for teens.

Twenty-three states require cursive to be taught in public schools, including Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. The writing form has been making a comeback in recent years.

Historically, cursive writing was a necessary skill. The ability to write quickly and legibly was essential for notetaking, personal correspondence, and even completing standardized forms.

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.