A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an effective learning tool or just nostalgia?

Starting April 12, all public and private schools in Pennsylvania must reintroduce cursive handwriting into their curriculum.

Old-fashioned penmanship is better for your brain—and it’s making a comeback in classrooms. Cursive handwriting is making a big comeback in schools for students of the Gen Alpha generation (born ...

Pennsylvania schools are required to teach cursive handwriting under a new law. Gov. Josh Shapiro announced on social media ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shelley Feltenberger reads a book about the first day of school to her third grade class to welcome them to the school year at ...

The Legislature passed the measure as part of a bigger education bill during the final days of the 2026 Regular Session. The ...

Cursive writing is making a comeback in Pennsylvania classrooms. A new state law now requires all schools to teach cursive. The program is meant to ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The ...

When it comes to written communications, before the advent of smartphones, texting and computers, cursive was the way to go. Examples of cursive writing date back to the time of the Romans, but like ...

A Florida bill that would require elementary school students to learn cursive writing is heading to the governor’s desk after passing through the state legislature.

Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation mandating cursive instruction in New Jersey schools. Was it really worth it?