Out of practice. Maria Jette, 65, a classical singer who lives in Minnesota, had not really used cursive in 25 years before taking a seven-week, French-immersion course at Middlebury College.

In California, a new law will require all students there to learn cursive handwriting — a skill that had been mandatory for generations, but started to fall by the wayside in the digital age.

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.

A third-grade student practices cursive writing in a 2023 file photo. To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

Moving forward, handwriting instruction for grades 1 to 6 is to include writing “in cursive or joined italics in the appropriate grade levels,” the law states. Advertisement The directive ...