A bill requiring cursive instruction and proficiency standards in Florida schools is awaiting the governor's signature. Advocates argue that learning cursive improves spelling, writing fluency, and ...

A proposed bill at the Legislature would require the state to teach elementary students to read and write cursive, reversing a shift that began more than 15 years ago, when the state adopted Common ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that's not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...

Starting April 12, all public and private schools in Pennsylvania must reintroduce cursive handwriting into their curriculum. The legislation passed with strong bipartisan support in the House (195‑8) ...

PENNSYLVANIA - Starting next month, all public and private schools in Pennsylvania will be required to reintroduce cursive handwriting into their curriculum. The new law, which was signed by Gov. Josh ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

The American Handwriting Analysis Foundation (AHAF) announced that its annual Cursive Is Cool(r) handwriting contest is now open to students in Kindergarten through Grade 7, encouraging young writers ...

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A new Pennsylvania law requires that elementary school students will be taught how to write in cursive. Gov. Josh Shapiro on Feb. 11 signed the bill, Act No. 2 of 2026, that would be effective in 60 ...

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