Minutes ticked by and most of the students, 9-year-olds in teacher Brittney Chapman's class last spring, had formed only a few words or a single sentence on a lined worksheet.

Inside the classroom, a new Kentucky law requires students to learn cursive. Senate Bill 167, which passed in 2024, goes into effect this upcoming school year, 2025-2026.

A couple in Indiana developed a free writing academy to help young people learn how to write and read cursive handwriting.

Since the U.S. Department of Education dropped cursive writing from standard national curricula in 2011, the debate on the value of learning penmanship has raged. Some argue that the skill is ...

Cursive writing, once a staple of elementary education, is vanishing from classrooms across the United States. A Michigan ...

To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in Ohio comes down on the side of teaching cursive handwriting.

They decided to create customized workshops aimed at re-introducing cursive writing. Indiana schools stopped teaching cursive in 2011 and it is no longer a required course in most school districts.

KELLER: They're actually writing jokes in cursive, so they're practicing it in something that's of high interest to all of them. INSKEEP: California's new handwriting law takes effect in January ...