Nature

How learning handwriting trains the brain: the science behind the cursive wars

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.
Los Angeles Times

Learning cursive in school, long scorned as obsolete, is now the law in California

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...
WSB-TV

Do you remember how to write cursive? New state standards require 3rd to 5th graders to learn

ATLANTA — In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth graders will learn again how to do just that. Channel 2’s Lori Wilson ...
NJ.com

Cursive handwriting is back from the dead. N.J. schools now must teach it in grades 3-5.

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A new state law signed Monday ...
clickondetroit.com

Is cursive writing still relevant?

Today is National Handwriting Day! When you think of handwriting, you may think of the way you write your name or your penmanship during notetaking but what about the way you write? In today’s time, ...