Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age.

I had the last laugh. Lousy penmanship didn’t stop me from becoming someone whose profession depends on shaping letters.

Educators and parents are observing a surge in US youths who don’t know how to read or write in cursive — which they blame on handwriting increasingly becoming obsolete in the digital age.

California is now mandating cursive instruction for public school students, but what's the point of pushing a pen in a digital world?

Consequently, cursive writing instruction waned. But within the past decade, statewide cursive requirements have been trending upward. In 2016, 14 states required schools to teach cursive writing.

For many young students, cursive handwriting is a lost art form, dismissed in favor of typing assignments on school Chromebooks or on educational apps. But for Lauren Hand, an eighth-grader at St ...

Governor Newsom has signed a bill that will require cursive instruction in first through sixth grade at California schools.

Less than 10 years ago, only 14 states required schools to teach cursive— but that number has been steadily increasing, with 24 now having some kind of requirement.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law last Friday that requires the teaching of cursive writing in schools for grades one through six.

Georgia schools say 'Yes' FILE - A student at a California elementary school practices writing cursive after the state started requiring them to learn cursive in the 2023-2024 school year.

In the 2025-26 school year, cursive will go back to being a mandatory part of the school curriculum. In 2010, cursive writing was removed as a requirement in Kentucky schools.