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 in ...

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 ...

so you get good at reading all kinds of handwriting, cursive or otherwise. (It’s never too late to learn.) And generally speaking, writing in cursive is faster than writing in print. And like ...

As it stands, just 24 states require that cursive is taught in the classroom. But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of ...

A Florida bill that would have required cursive handwriting in grades two through five won't be going to Gov. Ron DeSantis ...

White said both cursive and manuscript—writing unconnected letters—have advantages. “There’s no research that says manuscript or cursive is best for everyone at all times,” she said. Sponsored One of ...

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 ...

Educators often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone something that’s not mandated such as cursive handwriting. In several ...