This article appears in the October 2022 print edition with the headline “Cursive Is History.” When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting ...

Gavin Newsom signed into law in October, described it in a press release as “an issue of equity.” Cursive “enhances a child’s brain development, including memorization, and improves fine ...

Gen Z never learned to read cursive, Drew Gilpin Faust wrote in the October 2022 issue. How will they interpret the past? Drew Gilpin Faust’s article on students’ inability to read cursive ...

Mary Altaffer AP With the governor’s signature (no doubt in cursive), California Assembly Bill 446 was passed this October, making cursive instruction in public elementary schools mandatory in ...

On October 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill making cursive handwriting instruction mandatory in 1st through 6th grades. The legislation passed this year, but it could have ...

Last year’s contest attracted 80,000 students. With California bringing back compulsory cursive instruction in October — joining 21 other states — there’s obvious interest in mandatory ...

Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting ... Sharon Quirk-Silva and signed into law in October, requires handwriting instruction for the ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

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 ...