A couple in Indiana developed a free writing academy to help young people learn how to write and read cursive handwriting.Twice a week, Terrell and Chelsea Wittington teach young students how to write ...

Twenty-four U.S. states require schools to teach cursive, according to a November 2024 report from Education Week, which ...

At Holmes Middle School in Lincolnia, teacher Sherisse Kenerson is reviving the art of cursive writing through an after-school club.

Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members of Gen Z have never been taught how to read or write cursive, The Atlantic ...

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 ...

Last academic year, Samuel E. Hubbard Elementary received the John Hancock Award from the state for demonstrating excellence in cursive instruction, "a skill that builds fine motor strength, enhances ...

A pair of bills filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate students from second to fifth grade to learn how to write and read in cursive.

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it ...

Because you are reading this in typeface (or maybe even listening to this in an audio format), cursive probably isn’t even on your radar. Who writes in cursive anymore? Maybe to sign checks or ...