As the world rapidly moves away from the need to write information by hand, there are still many U.S. states still teaching cursive instruction to American children. California and New Hampshire ...

At Greenbriar East Elementary, the cursive lesson is a hybrid of old and new. Students have pencils in hand, but their ...

In this photo illustration, Jayme Rost, a second-grade teacher at West Point Elementary in Hempfield, demonstrates how she teaches cursive writing in her classroom, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

Handwriting, the argument goes, reinforces reading skills such as visual tracking, reading left to right, as well as capitalization and punctuation rules, spelling and vocabulary.

White offered guidance on maximizing handwriting’s benefits, including whether to prioritize cursive, the importance of developing automaticity and ensuring handwriting remains a functional literacy ...

Laws mandating cursive be taught in schools vary across the Bi-state. Here's which students are required to learn how to read and write in cursive.

Missouri’s handwriting bills want children to learn cursive in public schools, despite its redundancy in the digital age. But is it valuable?

FILE - A student at a California elementary school practices writing cursive after the state started requiring them to learn cursive in the 2023-2024 school year. Similar standards are being set ...

Not learning to read or write cursive doesn’t only mean that countless kids can’t sign their own names — which was once a point of pride among immigrants like my grandparents, as opposed to ...