The big picture: The trend of requiring cursive again is growing nationwide, despite kids using technology like iPads and Chromebooks at younger ages and teachers complaining that they're already ...

The push and pull of teaching cursive and penmanship has been ongoing since the mid-2010s, after most states adopted the Common Core State Standards, which did not expressly mention cursive but ...

The move also reignited the question of whether K-12 schools should teach cursive. The gap in cursive education has been a source of debate in state legislatures across the country in recent years ...

California kept cursive in its state standards for 3rd and 4th grades, but it wasn’t enforced, Quirk-Silva said, leaving it up to the discretion of districts and often individual teachers.

Although cursive started to disappear from classrooms years ago, educators say there are good reasons to keep teaching it, ...

Teaching children to write by hand seems to ... There are also cultural issues. Proponents of cursive argue that hundreds of years of manuscripts could not be read by a generation who never ...