New Jersey's public schools must by law teach students how to write cursive legibly and become fluent in reading it.

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

Sherisse Kenerson in Alexandria, Virginia, leads a club of sixth- through eighth-graders who want to know the art of looping ...

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. ...

Starting next school year, New Jersey elementary students will once again learn cursive writing, a move inspired by research ...

New Jersey public school students in the third, fourth and fifth grades will be taught cursive writing. That proposal was ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — January 23 is National Handwriting Day. The day was created in 1977 to promote the use of pens, pencils and paper. But in 2020, is learning how to write in cursive still important?

Governor Phil Murphy has signed legislation requiring the return of cursive handwriting instruction in New Jersey’s public ...

New Jersey elementary school students will learn how to write in cursive again after Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new bill into ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

A bill that would make cursive instruction mandatory for New Jersey elementary school students is on Gov. Phil Murphy's desk.