The 25 states still requiring kids to learn cursive

To understand why cursive writing seems to be a dying art, you have to go all the way back to…well, only 2007, actually. It ...
Yahoo

Do you remember how to write cursive? New state standards require 3rd to 5th graders to learn

In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth graders will learn again how to do just that. Channel 2’s Lori Wilson went out ...

Cursive is back. But should students be learning the skill?

A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...
Government Technology

What Happens to Cursive Handwriting in the Digital Age?

(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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: If kids must learn cursive, old folks should learn to use smartphones

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...
KSDK

As fewer kids learn to write in cursive, some states are pushing to mandate lessons

ST. LOUIS — In 2010, more than 40 states adopted the same standards for English and math called the Common Core standards. Missouri and Illinois are among the states that have adopted the guidelines.