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Cursive is making a comeback. The looping handwriting style defined by flowing, connected letters had faded from curricula in places such as the United States, Finland and Switzerland as schools ...

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 ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - Elementary students across Florida could soon be required to learn to write and read in cursive. House Bill 127, sponsored by State ...

Research has shown that it helps children develop. But many parents say their kids aren’t learning cursive in school. When my 12-year-old twin boys went to overnight camp several years ago, my father ...

As one of his final acts, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy paved the way for bringing cursive back Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has ...

New Jersey is flipping the script and ordering its public schools to bring back cursive writing starting next fall. In one of his final acts as governor, Phil Murphy on Monday signed legislation ...

New Jersey public school students in the third, fourth and fifth grades will be taught cursive writing. That proposal was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy Monday on his last full day as the Garden ...

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A state law signed Monday ...

Students in New Jersey are to be required to learn cursive starting next school year. This requirement comes after Phil Murphy, during his last full day as New Jersey governor Jan. 19, signed a new ...

In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Philip D. Murphy signed a bill on Monday requiring third, fourth and fifth graders to learn cursive. By Sarah Maslin Nir With a swooping P, a curling H, a ...

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A new state law signed Monday ...