Los Angeles Times

Readers show off their cursive skills, and then sound off about handwriting

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 ...
The Telegraph

Handing down the ancient skill of cursive letters

We learn things best as children, and they stay with us for a lifetime. Multiplication tables. How to tie shoes. Tell time. These are basic skills, and they’re locked in. I’m told you never forget how ...

Treasure Coast lawmakers push to make cursive reading and writing mandatory in schools

Treasure Coast lawmakers propose bills requiring elementary students to read and write cursive, reviving a skill dropped from state law in 2010.
WSPA

One step closer: State lawmakers trying to change cursive lessons in schools

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) — There are squiggly lines that when strung together, without lifting your pencil off the paper, create letters and words. This style of writing is known as cursive writing.
Psychology Today

Cursive Is Not Dead Yet

The national education standards, Common Core, aimed to kill the teaching of cursive. But it is not dead—just wounded. Yesterday, I did a radio interview on WHO in DesMoines, which bills itself as the ...
PBS

Randi House - Cursive Letters

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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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: If kids must learn cursive, old folks should learn to use smartphones

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...
abc27

‘How do I sign signatures and stuff’ without cursive? Plan would mandate it in Pennsylvania schools

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. (WHTM) — This wouldn’t have been news at any other moment in history, but it is now: The fourth graders at St. Theresa School here are writing everything in cursive. Almost all of ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Yes, schools do need to teach cursive

In our home, we have a framed letter written by a Civil War soldier to his mother. That letter has been passed down for generations in my mother-in-law’s family. In it, the soldier talks about the ...

Why is still makes sense to teach people to write by hand

Learning how to write takes time, whether it is holding your pen properly or ensuring all the letters are on the same ...