For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction.

As of 2025, there are 24 states that require cursive lessons, which is up from 14 states less than a decade ago. From California to Alabama, some states start as early as third grade, and others by ...

Cursive handwriting could be poised to make a comeback in public schools, more than a decade after the practice faded from ...

Philadelphia’s numbers were worse ... Besides potential benefits to overall writing and reading development, cursive handwriting continues to have social importance. It is often used to sign ...