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.

NJ elementary school students will learn cursive again

New Jersey elementary school students will learn how to write in cursive again after Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new bill into ...

Cursive returns to New Jersey classrooms under new state law

Cursive is coming back to New Jersey classrooms. It was one of the final acts by Governor Phil Murphy. The new state law ...
WSB-TV

Do you remember how to write cursive? New state standards require 3rd to 5th graders to learn

ATLANTA — In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth graders will learn again how to do just that. Channel 2’s Lori Wilson ...

Meet the middle-schoolers keeping cursive alive, one swoop at a time

Sherisse Kenerson in Alexandria, Virginia, leads a club of sixth- through eighth-graders who want to know the art of looping ...

Alexandria club teaches cursive. Should it be taught in DMV area schools?

At Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, the after-school Cursive Club meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Since the club started ...

WA bill could require cursive writing in schools

A group of state lawmakers want to require Washington students to learn how to write in cursive. This game can be pretty ...
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 school, ...