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Teachers often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone cursive handwriting.

The South Bend Community School Corporation Board has unanimously passed a measure to return cursive writing to the curriculum.

Students in South Carolina could soon begin learning how to write in cursive beginning in second grade instead of fifth grade.

Now, a total of 23 states require some form of cursive writing instruction while five more (Kentucky, Minnesota, New Jersey, Nevada and Wisconsin) have pending legislation on the topic.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law last October making cursive part of the elementary school curriculum.

Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age.

A new law requiring cursive to be taught in California schools went into effect at the start of this year. But does this style of handwriting have long to live on a global scale?