Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries. Some states are bringing it back to classrooms.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / ...

(TNS) — The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all ...

New bills would mandate cursive reading and writing instruction for Florida elementary school students. Students would be required to demonstrate proficiency in reading and writing cursive by the ...

A student draws a picture in Emelia Bruscantini's classroom at Milam K-8 Center in Hialeah. Once considered a dying craft, cursive may soon see a revival in public schools across Florida thanks to a ...

I live in West Philadelphia, and my kids, who are 17 and 19, have some beautiful cursive handwriting, a skill they picked up, along with Latin and the ability to sit up straight at a desk for 60 ...

SACRAMENTO - California elementary schools are now required to teach cursive in the classroom. It has not been a requirement since 2010, but many schools including a portion of classrooms at Stockton ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Cursive handwriting is returning to Pennsylvania schools thanks to a bill signed into law this week. Act 2 of 2026 (formerly House Bill 17) — agreed to in the state Senate last week ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — All Pennsylvania students will now need to learn cursive. Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) signed House Bill 17, which received bipartisan support, into law Tuesday. It places cursive ...

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 ...