Cursive writing is becoming mandatory in New Jersey public schools. Here’s when the new law goes into effect

Cursive writing is becoming mandatory in New Jersey public schools. Here’s when the new law goes into effect As one of his ...

NJ flips script — mandates teaching cursive writing in schools starting next fall

Print is dead. New Jersey is flipping the script and ordering its public schools to bring back cursive writing starting next ...

Meet the middle-schoolers keeping cursive alive, one swoop at a time

Sherisse Kenerson in Alexandria, Virginia, leads a club of sixth- through eighth-graders who want to know the art of looping ...
KSDK

As fewer kids learn to write in cursive, some states are pushing to mandate lessons

ST. LOUIS — In 2010, more than 40 states adopted the same standards for English and math called the Common Core standards. Missouri and Illinois are among the states that have adopted the guidelines.
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: If kids must learn cursive, old folks should learn to use smartphones

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in ...