Cursive Handwriting Will No Longer Be Taught in Schools Because It's a Big, Old Waste of Time Seven states are fighting to continue teaching penmanship in schools By John Boone Nov 15, 2013 6:52 PM ...

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

April 30, 2013. Should schools ... Common Core State Standards, a set of national benchmarks for American public schools, do not require students to learn cursive. As a result, ...

Teaching cursive is once again the law for kids in California — news that adults greet with celebration, nostalgia, scorn, indifference and head-scratching. Elegant and indecipherable: Readers ...

Many of our local schools have been recognized by the Georgia Department of Education for their efforts to teach students cursive.

Cursive had its moment, somewhere between powdered wigs and the Pony Express. Kids today should be learning coding, robotics, digital literacy and how to spot AI-generated nonsense, not perfecting ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law last Friday that requires the teaching of cursive writing in schools for grades one through six.

Before 2009, most kids were taught cursive writing in the third grade. However, it was 2009 when the Common Core State Standards Initiative was launched; it didn’t require, or even suggest for ...