Jimmy Bryant is the director of archives and special collections at the University of Central Arkansas. April 30, 2013 In today’s society, people of all ages use e-mail and various forms of ...

Cursive handwriting is alive in North Carolina’s elementary schools – five years after state lawmakers required that students be taught what some advocates feared was becoming a long lost art. A new ...

(TNS) — 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 ...

In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills. However, ...

Sophomore Andrew Forbes of Nashville, Tennessee, used cursive everyday in elementary school, from third grade through eighth grade. He was required to write out all his papers, worksheets, and notes ...

But is cursive like riding a bike or do we forget it instantly like virtually anything we learned in high school math? To find out, we asked 11 adults with varying degrees of cursive experience to ...

New bills in Florida would mandate cursive instruction for students in second through fifth grade. Proponents argue cursive is important for reading historical documents and developing a personal ...

SACRAMENTO - California elementary schools are now required to teach cursive in the classroom. It has not been a requirement since 2010, but many schools including a portion of classrooms at Stockton ...

A student draws a picture in Emelia Bruscantini's classroom at Milam K-8 Center in Hialeah. Once considered a dying craft, cursive may soon see a revival in public schools across Florida thanks to a ...

A new Ohio law encourages schools to teach students how to write legibly in cursive by the end of the fifth grade. While cursive is returning to state emphasis, it never left Oakwood. The district has ...

Elementary school kids might be required once again to learn how to read and write in cursive. A pair of bills (HB 127 and SB 444) filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate students from ...