Cursive writing, once a staple of elementary education, is vanishing from classrooms across the United States. A Michigan ...

GEORGIA, USA — Is cursive making a comeback in Georgia? Well, sort of, it's actually evolving. Here's what we found. New and more defined cursive standards were recently added to the 2025-2026 ...

Well said, but if there is a way to build an understanding of cursive into the system without busting the budget or losing another important skill, I’d be up for that.

Their first cursive writing class, which drew 35 students ages 7-17, concluded Wednesday at the Woodland Child Development Center in Hammond. They met with the kids in two-hour classes twice a ...

CURSIVE COMEBACK As computer keyboards and tablets proliferated, cursive faded. In 2010, the national Common Core education standards were published to help prepare students for college.

Consequently, cursive writing instruction waned. But within the past decade, statewide cursive requirements have been trending upward. In 2016, 14 states required schools to teach cursive writing.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law last Friday that requires the teaching of cursive writing in schools for grades one through six.

Compulsory cursive writing has been tucked into dozens of pages that describe the standards for English in elementary school. The state board approved the revised standards in a 13-1 vote in May 2023.