Georgia elementary schoolers will officially be learning cursive writing starting this upcoming school year.The Georgia ...

The 2025 school year in Georgia will start in August and this time, it’s bringing back an older lesson plan for its newer ...

The Georgia Department of Education is bringing back cursive writing instruction to public elementary schools for the 2025-26 ...

Historically, cursive writing was a necessary skill. The ability to write quickly and legibly was essential for notetaking, personal correspondence, and even completing standardized forms.

Georgia's new education standards require teaching cursive writing to students. The move aims to strengthen fine motor ...

She looks forward to her daily cursive lesson, especially on the days when she gets to practice her favorite letters. “It kind of looks fancier than printing,” she said. “It’s cool.” ...

We analysed the handwriting of 90 participants to understand the differences in styles and attitudes towards handwriting in ...

Georgia’s new English language arts standards will include an emphasis on handwriting, and particularly cursive. The previous ...

When younger students return to Georgia public schools this fall, they will learn an old-school skill: handwriting.

Context. In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills.

Starting in the 2025-2026 school year, third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students will be instructed to read and write cursive.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...