Pennsylvania’s students will soon learn how to write in cursive once again, as a bill requiring such education is headed to ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...

New Jersey mandates cursive instruction in all districts by 2026–27. Gov. Murphy cites history & cognitive benefits. Click ...

When Celia Batan sat down to write her graduate thesis, she started with one question: “What do we lose if we do not teach children how to connect letters instead of printing or typing?” On the ...

A new state law calls for old-fashioned cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary school - but the Princeton Public ...

Sen. Jean Leising once again wants cursive writing to be a required curriculum in every public, charter and state-accredited private elementary school in Indiana. Such instruction hasn’t been required ...

Elementary school teachers in New Jersey should be teaching cursive writing in 2026-27 thanks to a new law signed by Phil ...

Elementary school students in New Jersey will start to learn cursive again after Governor Phil Murphy signed a new bill into law. On Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, Gov. Murphy signed S1783/A3865. The bill ...

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A new state law signed Monday ...

In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...