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

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” McKnight said.

However, in the U.S., numerous schools no longer teach cursive writing and have instead dropped its instruction in favor of Common Core standards, which is a set of educational standards developed ...

It is a fact that in 2010, the U.S. government officially removed cursive from the required Common Core Standards for K-12 education. And frankly, with laptops and tablets replacing paper, ...

Other states, including Maine, Montana, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Wyoming, leave it up to the individual school district. Nearly 200 years ago, cursive writing was introduced and ...