Cursive Writing Is Becoming Mandatory in New Jersey Public Schools. Here’s When the New Law Goes into Effect

Cursive is making a comeback in New Jersey next fall! On Monday, Jan. 19, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new state law that ...

New Jersey will now require cursive writing for some elementary school students

Beginning in September, New Jersey public schools must teach cursive writing to students in grades three to five under a law ...

NJ flips script — mandates teaching cursive writing in schools starting next fall

Print is dead. New Jersey is flipping the script and ordering its public schools to bring back cursive writing starting next ...

Meet the middle-schoolers keeping cursive alive, one swoop at a time

Sherisse Kenerson in Alexandria, Virginia, leads a club of sixth- through eighth-graders who want to know the art of looping ...
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Cursive writing has benefits, but should it be required?

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, ...
fox17online

The push to revive cursive writing in West Michigan

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out ...
Indiana Gazette

THE WAY WE SEE IT: Cursive writing - Is it important or a useless educational relic?

Have your children ever approached you and asked, “How/why do you write like that? I wish I knew how to do that.” We have. We’re talking about cursive writing, a skill that went by the wayside ...