A new state law requires teaching cursive writing in elementary schools starting in September. Some educators aren't happy ...

Starting next school year, New Jersey elementary students will once again learn cursive writing, a move inspired by research ...

Last week, elementary school students returned to the classroom in Archdale, N.C., with a new subject on the mandatory agenda: cursive writing. It’s a debate that has been simmering among experts, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / ...

The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years gone by, it helped ...

Elementary school teachers in New Jersey should be teaching cursive writing in 2026-27 thanks to a new law signed by Phil ...

A few months ago, I pulled out a kids’ book for my seven-year-old to read to me. She opened the first page, shook her head ...

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

Beginning in September, New Jersey public schools must begin teaching cursive writing to students in grades three to five. A ...

Print is dead. New Jersey is flipping the script and ordering its public schools to bring back cursive writing starting next ...

HB 127 would put in state law a requirement to test elementary students on their ability to write and read cursive.