(The Conversation) – Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.

(The Conversation) — Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read.

A Minnesota senator is pushing a bill to require cursive handwriting in schools, citing cognitive benefits and historical ...

“Research has shown that cursive handwriting enhances a child’s brain development, including memorization, and improves fine motor skills,” said California lawmaker Sharon Quirk-Silva, lead sponsor of ...

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 ...

Are you a superhero? You might be if you can read cursive. And just like those superheroes in comic books and movies, those powers are needed more than ever. Queue the spotlight. The National Archives ...

Cursive writing was supposed to be dead by now. Schools would stop teaching it. Kids would stop learning it. Everyone would stop using it. The Common Core standards adopted by most states in recent ...

A new Pennsylvania law requires that elementary school students will be taught how to write in cursive. Gov. Josh Shapiro on Feb. 11 signed the bill, Act No. 2 of 2026, that would be effective in 60 ...

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Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...