The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn ...

As of 2025, there are 24 states that require cursive lessons, which is up from 14 states less than a decade ago. From ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth ...

Educators often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone those – like cursive handwriting – that aren’t mandated. In several ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives ... as “typewriting”) and no longer required handwriting on the presumption that most of the writing students would do would be on computers.

University of Iowa provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I ...