New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting skills.

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law. Let's take a moment now for a ...

NEW YORK >> Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand. Alabama ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Cursive handwriting is making a comeback in public schools after years of gradually fading out of the curriculum. Now 14 states require cursive lessons, and New York City schools are ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – What started off as a hand writing lesson has now turned into a friendship between a group of third graders from Good Shepherd Episcopal School and some seniors living at ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Kentucky lawmaker has filed a bill that would require cursive writing to be taught in elementary schools and for students to be proficient in cursive by the time they enter ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Some state lawmakers want to bring back cursive handwriting as a requirement in Ohio's elementary schools. Republican Reps. Andrew Brenner and Marilyn Slaby have proposed ...

A new Pennsylvania law requires that elementary school students will be taught how to write in cursive. Gov. Josh Shapiro on Feb. 11 signed the bill, Act No. 2 of 2026, that would be effective in 60 ...

Pennsylvania is joining about 25 other states — including Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware — in requiring cursive instruction.

Cursive writing will be required in Illinois schools after the legislature overrode the governor’s veto Wednesday. The Illinois Senate voted 42-12 to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of legislation ...

Cursive isn't required in Indiana schools. Apparently they’re not teaching cursive at Abbott Elementary, either. Viewers of the Feb. 7 season three premiere of the hit ABC sitcom "Abbott Elementary" ...