A pair of bills filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate students from second to fifth grade to learn how to write and read in cursive.

Elementary-school students would have to learn how to write in cursive, under a bill set to be vetted by a House committee ...

I type all day. I swipe and tap on my phone. I scribble notes to myself on paper. I’m happy with my mostly-digital life. But every now and then I’ll get a handwritten note—from an old lady, ...

Sen. Andy Zay, R-Huntington, one of the three who voted against the bill, said the internet safety provisions of the bill should be required but cursive should be an option for school districts to ...

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

More than 20 states have reintroduced the practice of cursive writing after the Common Core standards dropped requirements that the skill be taught in public elementary schools in 2010, The New York ...

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law. Let's take a moment now for a ...

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