With the governor’s signature (no doubt in cursive), California Assembly Bill 446 was passed this October, making cursive instruction in public elementary schools mandatory in grades one through six.

As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it fitting to write them in cursive, a skill I spent many hours mastering when I was a kid in school. And, now there’s another push to bring cursive ...

Not everyone is convinced cursive deserves a comeback tour.

A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...

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I am of an age when we had to learn cursive writing. If I recall, it was in the fourth grade. My grandchildren do not know how to write in cursive, and their printing is very sloppy and hard to read.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Missouri legislators are again pushing to make learning to write cursive mandatory for students in kindergarten through fifth ...

A third-grader practices his cursive handwriting at P.S.166 in the Queens borough of New York. Mary Altaffer AP With the governor’s signature (no doubt in cursive), California Assembly Bill 446 was ...

Missouri legislators are again pushing to make learning to write cursive mandatory for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Bigstock As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it ...