Who needs a pencil and paper when we can just type or generate whatever text we need to? Actually, New Jersey students will, ...

Public schools must teach students how to write cursive legibly and become fluent in reading it, under a bill signed by Gov.

Starting next school year, New Jersey elementary students will once again learn cursive writing, a move inspired by research ...

An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...

When Celia Batan sat down to write her graduate thesis, she started with one question: “What do we lose if we do not teach children how to connect letters instead of printing or typing?” On the ...

As one of his final acts, Gov. Phil Murphy paved the way for bringing cursive back ...

Elementary school teachers in New Jersey should be teaching cursive writing in 2026-27 thanks to a new law signed by Phil ...

In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Philip D. Murphy signed a bill on Monday requiring third, fourth and fifth graders ...

Cursive is coming back to New Jersey classrooms. It was one of the final acts by Governor Phil Murphy. The new state law mandates cursive instruction in grades 3 to 5, beginning this fall.

In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...