Cursive handwriting is back from the dead. N.J. schools now must teach it in grades 3-5.

Public schools must teach students how to write cursive legibly and become fluent in reading it, under a bill signed by Gov.
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: If kids must learn cursive, old folks should learn to use smartphones

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in ...
inforum

Research shows cursive still worth teaching

GRAND FORKS — Because children spend so much time using computers and other digital devices — where the keyboard is king — some wonder if the old-fashioned art of handwriting is becoming outdated ...
lex18

KY lawmakers considering bill that would require children to learn cursive

FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — Should Kentucky's kids learn how to write in cursive? Lawmakers are considering a bill that would require it. Senate Bill 167 would require cursive writing to be ...
CNN

A New Jersey bill would require schoolchildren to be taught cursive handwriting

Should children be required to learn cursive? A New Jersey legislator says so. Assemblywoman Angela McKnight has introduced a bill that would require elementary schools to teach kids how to read ...
Des Moines Register

Cursive: Some states still teaching kids to have the write stuff

COLUMBUS, Ohio – 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 ...