Cursive writing is introduced in second grade about halfway through the school year and reinforced in higher grades. Rost uses a chapter book, “Muggie Maggie,” to introduce the skill.

Many teachers nationwide no longer teach cursive writing to students.

In California, a new law will require all students there to learn cursive handwriting — a skill that had been mandatory for generations, but started to fall by the wayside in the digital age.

The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting.

Starting this school year, all Georgia students in grades 3-5 are expected to learn cursive, with the goal of reading and writing it by end of fifth grade. The state says cursive strengthens literacy, ...

Three experts talked to KQED Forum about the importance and pedagogic benefits of cursive handwriting, its future and what we might all lose if it were to die out.

STORY: Cursive is making a comeback in California. In an era of computers and tablets, the skill has fallen out of fashion.But a new state law requires students to learn the old-school style of ...

He notes, "For several years, we conducted the National Handwriting Contest, and it focused on cursive handwriting specifically. But we had thousands of teachers that would send in handwriting ...

Should children be required to learn cursive? A New Jersey legislator says so. Assemblywoman Angela McKnight has introduced a bill that would require elementary schools to teach kids how to read an… ...