Bill requiring Pa. schools to teach cursive handwriting to be presented to Gov. Shapiro

Known as House Bill 17, the legislation requires cursive handwriting to be taught in all Pennsylvania schools.
KULR-8

12th Annual Cursive Is Cool Contest Launches Nationwide for Students in Grades K-7

Now in its 12th year, the Cursive Is Cool® contest continues to grow in reach and enthusiasm, engaging students, teachers, ...
The Advocate

Cursive-writing mandate clears first Louisiana legislative hurdle, but will full Senate follow the script?

Public school students would have to be taught cursive writing starting in August under a bill that breezed through the Louisiana Senate Education Committee on Thursday. The measure, Senate Bill 275, ...
Eagle-Tribune

What would John Hancock think? Cursive writing at risk in U.S. schools

The use of cursive writing has been fading from society since the arrival of the computer keyboard. Advocates of longhand blame the so-called common core education standards for hastening its demise.
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Cursive writing to go the way of the typewriter

Remember the days when you couldn't wait to get into second or third grade so you could write in cursive? Remember practicing the loops and swirls to make the capital L or the S? The Indiana ...
Idaho State Journal

Opinion: Cursive writing where did you go?

A recent study by scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology concluded something I suspected to be true: cursive writing promotes learning more than typing on a keyboard. They ...
The World

Oregon schools still teaching cursive writing

PORTLAND (AP) -- Looking through 17 papers that University of Portland students recently wrote in class, Education Professor Richard S. Christen finds only two are in cursive handwriting. Everyone ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Cursive is Cool Contest Invites Young Writers to Showcase Their Handwriting Skills

VENTURA, Calif., April 2, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The American Handwriting Analysis Foundation (AHAF) is excited to announce the return of the Cursive is Cool contest, encouraging students from ...
The Daily Reflector

Concerns over cursive: Despite state law, some say handwriting doesn't make the grade

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s cursive requirement is worth the paper it’s written on. Julie Anderson, ...
The Bakersfield Californian

POLLY MORRICE: How cursive writing helped my autistic son

As followers of education controversies know by now, the Common Core academic standards, soon to be carried out by 45 states, don't require the teaching of cursive handwriting. The curricular gap has ...
Press-Republican

Cursive writing at risk in U.S. schools

Last year, in adopting the Common Core standards, boards of education in Alabama, California and Georgia included a cursive writing requirement for their schools. Massachusetts repealed its cursive ...