Last week, the Pennsylvania House passed a bill that would require cursive handwriting to be taught in all public and private ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.

Context. In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills.

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” McKnight said.

But as many states adopted the Common Core State Standards, cursive disappeared for some states in 2010 and 2011. According to the National Education Association, dated in 2022, it appears that more ...

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” McKnight said.

At St. Brigid — where the school logo is written in cursive – third graders are always excited to learn cursive, said teacher Cindy Halpin, who has been teaching it for 36 years.

Antonette Willemse, a cursive writing teacher at Lighthouse Paper Co., explained that cursive writing can help children develop handwriting-eye coordination, concentration, and self-discipline.

Laws mandating cursive be taught in schools vary across the Bi-state. Here's which students are required to learn how to read and write in cursive. Skip Navigation ...