Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

Anchor standard No. 6 for writing illustrates the tech focus, asking students to “use technology, ... “Today’s cursive scripts are not these flourishing things of yesteryear,” he said.

Legislation that requires cursive handwriting instruction in Pennsylvania schools was approved by the state House of Representatives, according to the bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Dane Watro, R-116, ...

California kept cursive in its state standards for 3rd and 4th grades, but it wasn’t enforced, Quirk-Silva said, leaving it up to the discretion of districts and often individual teachers.

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

Once a standard in elementary schools, cursive is no longer taught to all students. A Maine lawmaker would like to change that. After watching her teacher trace the downward and upward curves of a ...

Teaching cursive is once again the law for kids in California — news that adults greet with celebration, nostalgia, scorn, ... producing examples well below their standard.

In addition to the cursive standard, other revisions include: The addition of a "foundational writing skills strand" for grades K-3. Under that progression, kindergarten students must learn how to ...

Unlike math and English, cursive is not a learning standard in Ohio. Learning standards outline what students need to learn by grade. However, there is a standard that students write legibly, ...

If the proposal is adopted, the cursive standard would become a statewide requirement. “We really have students that are grasping how to read, grasping how to write at the same time, ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is a polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that they don ...