Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, ...

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

Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting.

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 California ...

Common Core standards do not call for cursive instruction as mandatory part of curriculum At least 41 states do not require public schools to teach cursive reading or writing The standards promote ...

Across the country, many school districts dropped cursive from their curricula years ago. The new Common Core State Standards now being implemented in most states never mention the word "cursive." ...

Pennsylvania has enshrined cursive into its school curriculum. Why it matters: Spending valuable class time teaching students ...

The Common Core standards don’t require instruction in cursive writing but some states — including Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and California — have mandated cursive in public schools. With typing ...