Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In Louisiana, cursive is legally required to be taught in public schools.

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Cursive writing requires a very different skill set from print writing, involves using hand muscles in a different way, which activates a different part of the brain. Reinforces learning.

The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.

Practicing handwriting and writing cursive in school might seem like a lost art now that technology is being widely used in classrooms. However in Rapid City, teachers are continuing to work with ...

After being made optional in 2006, cursive is returning as a mandatory part of the Ontario elementary school curriculum in September.

Cursive writing was so yesterday in California, but in 2024 it’s back in class About half of students aren’t being taught cursive, but this year it will be required ...

Cursive writing is a style of handwriting wherein letters of a word are interconnected by lead-in and lead-out lines. It is written, as in Italics, at a slant angle from the baseline.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...

Georgia Department of Education has revised its standards for English Language Arts to require cursive writing after disappearing from the Common Core State Standards for more than a decade.

Cursive has been fading from classrooms for years, but some states — California most recently — have decided to bring it back.