Even before the new law took effect on Jan. 1, cursive was a California learning goal in grades 3 and 4, but the state and school districts had not enforced its teaching or tested to see whether ...

KELLER: They're actually writing jokes in cursive, so they're practicing it in something that's of high interest to all of them. INSKEEP: California's new handwriting law takes effect in January ...

The new law went into effect in California in January 2024, mandating cursive for elementary students.

Teaching cursive is once again the law for kids in California — news that adults greet with celebration, nostalgia, scorn, indifference and head-scratching. Jan. 8, 2024 If I could talk to my ...

As of this year, over 20 states now require a cursive writing curriculum, the Bee reported. Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed a law making this instruction mandatory in first through sixth grades ...

I was a third-grade teacher, and one of the goals of that grade was to transition the students from printing to cursive. The lessons started in September, and by January all schoolwork was to be ...

Jan 27 (Reuters) - A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school. Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting ...