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A bill that would mandate cursive throughout the entire state is winding its way through Harrisburg, sponsored by Republican ...
Is learning cursive a useful, beneficial part of education (those without it may have a hard time developing a signature, for instance)? Or is it time to move on from this quaint relic of past times?
In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.
And besides, because so many cursive letters differ significantly from their printed equivalents, they entail a learning burden that would be better spent on other, more useful tasks.
Georgia elementary schoolers will officially be learning cursive writing starting this upcoming school year.The Georgia ...
About 83,000 mail-in ballots were not counted in California because of signature match problems. A reader says that makes the case for cursive instruction. Are ballots getting tossed because we ...
Why Cursive Is Finally Making a Comeback in Public Schools Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. By Shawn Datchuk | Contributor May 7, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.
Gen Z voters who struggle with cursive could slow the vote count, Nevada's secretary of state said. He said more mail ballots have been rejected because of issues with young voters' signatures.
The National Archives is looking for volunteers to transcribe more than 200 years worth of documents. You can help, even if you can't read cursive.