Florida pushes a new cursive handwriting requirement for elementary schools

Florida House Bill 127, filed for the 2026 legislative session, would require all public school students in grades 2 through ...
Florida Politics

Lawmakers refile bill to require cursive proficiency for elementary school students

Twenty-four U.S. states require schools to teach cursive, according to a November 2024 report from Education Week, which ...

Back to basics? Cursive lessons will be mandatory for Florida kids if this bill passes

A pair of bills filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate students from second to fifth grade to learn how to ...
PBS

Learning About New American Cursive

A discussion with the creator of a new cursive handwriting style being taught in Kentucky schools. New this school year, Kentucky students are required to learn cursive handwriting. Many of them will ...
KTVU

Which US states still require students to learn cursive handwriting?

As the world rapidly moves away from the need to write information by hand, there are still many U.S. states still teaching cursive instruction to American children. California and New Hampshire ...
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Can your child read this? Florida pushes new cursive requirement for schools

HB 127 would require all public school students in grades 2 through 5 to learn cursive and, for the first time, prove they’re ...
KQED

Handwriting Helps Kids Learn. Here’s How to Make the Most of It

In an age where screens dominate classrooms and workplaces, handwriting might seem like a relic of the past. But research shows that putting pen to paper plays a crucial role in literacy development. ...
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Some Middle GA elementary students learn cursive from a new generation of teachers

Madison Walker, a 24-year-old third grade teacher at Samuel E. Hubbard, recalled moving as an elementary student from a private school that emphasized cursive to a public school where it was optional.
Yahoo

Learning cursive in school, long scorned as obsolete, is now the law in California

Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it ...
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Should students learn cursive writing? Some states say yes

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - 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. In ...
Portland Press Herald

Letter to the editor: Learning cursive writing a boon to student development

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Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: If kids must learn cursive, old folks should learn to use smartphones

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...