Cursive handwriting is making a big comeback in schools for students of the Gen Alpha generation (born between 2010 and 2025).

New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting skills.

The Legislature passed the measure as part of a bigger education bill during the final days of the 2026 Regular Session. The ...

Starting April 12, all public and private schools in Pennsylvania must reintroduce cursive handwriting into their curriculum.

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new law. Gov. Josh Shapiro announced on social media ...

Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation mandating cursive instruction in New Jersey schools. Was it really worth it?

Cursive writing is making a comeback in Pennsylvania classrooms. A new state law now requires all schools to teach cursive.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on ...

Pennsylvania has enshrined cursive into its school curriculum. Why it matters: Spending valuable class time teaching students ...

Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting.

The year my daughter was born, cursive was axed from the national Common Core standards for K-12 education. For those of us in older generations, writing and reading cursive was a basic skill taught ...

A bill requiring Florida elementary school students to learn cursive writing by the end of fifth grade is now headed to Gov.