Is cursive writing still being taught in America? Some states are starting to bring the old style back after disappearing. Cursive writing is a style of handwriting characterized by connected ...

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In Louisiana , cursive is legally required to be taught in public schools.

Once a standard in elementary schools, cursive is no longer taught to all students. A Maine lawmaker would like to change that. After watching her teacher trace the downward and upward curves of a ...

The Lasting Impact of Cursive Writing. Beyond the classroom, cursive writing holds cultural and historical significance. Elizabeth Fraley puts a spotlight on historical documents, personal letters ...

As schools have drifted away from cursive writing instruction, one Gary couple is launching classes in the flowing writing style for students ages 7-17 in Northwest Indiana.

Cursive had its moment, somewhere between powdered wigs and the Pony Express. Kids today should be learning coding, robotics, digital literacy and how to spot AI-generated nonsense, not perfecting ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

Why some Ohio kids are still mastering the lost art of cursive . ... Fine motor skills develop when a student learns to grip a pencil or pen, write within the lines of a paper, or trace letters.

The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking volunteer citizen archivists to help them classify and/or transcribe ...

The National Archives is currently looking for volunteers who have the ability to read cursive writing to help them transcribe and tag records of over 200 years' worth of documents. Amid the rise ...