NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

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.

Students in New Jersey will soon learn cursive again, thanks to a new state law signed by the governor. Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday that requires school districts to teach cursive in third ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. North Carolina lawmakers said they’ve discovered a huge number of public schools are breaking state law by not teaching cursive on a regular basis. State representatives are now are ...

Centre County schools have until April 12 to reintroduce cursive instruction.

ST. LOUIS — In 2010, more than 40 states adopted the same standards for English and math called the Common Core standards. Missouri and Illinois are among the states that have adopted the guidelines.

Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lowercase Ls and Gs. Just as phonics-based reading recently returned to favor after years of emphasizing whole ...

New bills would mandate cursive reading and writing instruction for Florida elementary school students. Students would be required to demonstrate proficiency in reading and writing cursive by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / ...

Cursive writing, when done right, looks like art: Letters flow elegantly into each other, the pen or pencil never rising off nor smudging the page. It is pretty. It is formal. But is it useful enough ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) will begin cursive handwriting instruction for students in grades 3-5 this upcoming fall. To align with Georgia’s K-12 English ...