Since the 2018-2019 school year, elementary schools in Illinois have been required by law to offer cursive lessons. Students are not required to take cursive lessons, but the school must offer it.

Cursive lessons forge important pathways that benefit all types of learning “To the human brain, the act of handwriting is very different from punching letters on a keyboard.

Starting in the 2025-2025 school year, third, fourth and fifth grade students will be instructed to read and write cursive.

A Tulsa woman, Linda Shrewsbury, has developed a cursive curriculum called Cursive Logic to revive cursive writing in schools, particularly after its removal from federal standards in 2010.

Tyara Brooks helps guide fourth-grade student Aaliyah Miranda-Garcia, left, and Sophia Ortega during a lesson on cursive writing. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times) ...

Starting next year, instruction of cursive penmanship will be mandatory for all California elementary school children. Bakersfield Republican Kevin McCarthy says he’ll resign from Congress at the end ...

Georgia classrooms reintroduce cursive writing for students from third to fifth grade, making it part of assessed coursework.

FRANKFORT — Cursive writing lessons could soon be making a reappearance in Kentucky schools. Common Core, the federal education initiative adopted in 2010, dropped cursive education, but the ...

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” she said.

Currently in South Carolina, a state law requires public schools to “provide instruction in cursive writing to ensure that students can create readable documents through legible cursive handw… ...

The state may join 23 others in requiring cursive lessons in public schools. Plus, an 85-year-old is promising a party that’ll only end “when the cops come.” ...

A Tulsa woman, Linda Shrewsbury, has developed a cursive curriculum called Cursive Logic to revive cursive writing in schools, particularly after its removal from federal standards in 2010.