Good handwriting is best understood as a learned skill. Like playing an instrument or developing athletic ability, it ...

Cursive is making a comeback. States and provinces across North America are re-introducing the continuous form of handwriting ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A new Florida law will require cursive writing to be taught between grades 3 to 5 starting the upcoming 2026-2027 school year. The law goes into effect on Wednesday, July 1, and ...

Florida public school students in grades 3 through 5 will be required to learn cursive writing — and prove they’ve mastered it — when a new state law takes effect July 1. Gov. DeSantis signed the ...

BALTIMORE COUNTY — Cursive writing is making a comeback in Baltimore County Public Schools. Starting next school year, second and third graders will learn how to loop their letters. The district is ...

Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries. Some states are bringing it back to classrooms. Credit ...

Melody Eichbauer grew up learning cursive in grade school and scribbling exam answers until her hand cramped well into her college years. Eichbauer, a professor of medieval, legal and ecclesiastical ...

A new Florida law aims to strengthen the teaching of cursive writing in public schools. The new cursive requirements are part of a sweeping education bill that was recently signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis ...

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FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. — Several states are making cursive writing instruction a requirement in schools once again, citing the importance of students being able to read our nation’s founding and ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that's not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...