For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

But they’ve also been used effectively by artists to display various fonts in sentences using every letter and in children’s cursive and handwriting practice workbooks—you know, before ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

As of 2025, there are 24 states that require cursive lessons, which is up from 14 states less than a decade ago. From California to Alabama, some states start as early as third grade, and others by ...

FLORIDA - Florida lawmakers are advancing a bill that would make cursive handwriting a required and graded part of public school education for students in grades two through five starting in the ...

Under the bill, students must be taught to form cursive letters, proper spacing and alignment, and must practice writing complete words and sentences in cursive,” said Overdorf on the House ...