Wall Street Journal opinion editors Mary Julia Koch and Emma Camp debate the necessity of teaching cursive in classrooms on ‘Fox & Friends.’ ...

Cursive writing lessons will be back in Pennsylvania classrooms after state lawmakers passed legislation requiring its reintroduction this month. Gov. Josh Shapiro signed the bill into law Wednesday.

We’re glad to see Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed legislation backed by Rep. Kathy Rapp to mandate cursive instruction in Pennsylvania schools. The commonwealth joins nearly two dozen states to require ...

With frequent modeling, teachers can guide their students to work through the writing process with confidence.

Pennsylvania elementary schools will soon be required to add cursive writing to their curriculum as state officials respond to concerns that too many young people can’t read handwriting or add their ...

Cursive is making a comeback. The looping handwriting style defined by flowing, connected letters had faded from curricula in places such as the United States, Finland and Switzerland as schools ...

Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lowercase Ls and Gs. Just as phonics-based reading recently returned to favor after years of emphasizing whole ...

A proposal requiring testing for Florida students’ cursive writing ability passed its second House committee Thursday, the last stop before it goes before the full House. HB 127 would put in state law ...

New Jersey public school students in the third, fourth and fifth grades will be taught cursive writing. That proposal was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy Monday on his last full day as the Garden ...

Research has shown that it helps children develop. But many parents say their kids aren’t learning cursive in school. When my 12-year-old twin boys went to overnight camp several years ago, my father ...

As one of his final acts, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy paved the way for bringing cursive back Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has ...

New Jersey is flipping the script and ordering its public schools to bring back cursive writing starting next fall. In one of his final acts as governor, Phil Murphy on Monday signed legislation ...