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.

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 ...

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

Moving forward, handwriting instruction for grades 1 to 6 is to include writing "in cursive or joined italics in the appropriate grade levels," the law states. The directive leaves room for ...

Studies find many elementary school teachers have had little-to-no preparation in how to effectively teach handwriting, and a University of Iowa special education professor has developed a free ...

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 ...

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

Currently, 21 states require some sort of cursive handwriting instruction, according to mycursive.com, a website that tracks cursive writing requirements nationwide.

Quirk-Silva told The Sacramento Bee that the goal is for students to be able to read and write in cursive. She pointed out that teachers may start to give hand-written exams because of the rise of AI ...

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.