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.

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In Louisiana , cursive is legally required to be taught in public schools.

However, in the U.S., numerous schools no longer teach cursive writing and have instead dropped its instruction in favor of Common Core standards, which is a set of educational standards developed ...

Cursive writing was once a standard part of school curriculums, but when Common Core education standards removed it from the required curriculum in 2010, cursive's prevalence declined, ...

In 2016, 14 states required schools to teach cursive writing. By 2019, 20 states had enacted legislation requiring it, Now, there are 25 states with cursive instruction requirements.

Cursive writing can be faster than writing in print, as continuous strokes allow for a quicker writing speed, making cursive useful for note-taking and other situations where speed is important.

Cursive writing can be faster than writing in print, as continuous strokes allow for a quicker writing speed, making cursive useful for note-taking and other situations where speed is important.

But cursive writing has truly become the hieroglyphics of this generation. I specifically remember being a fourth grader with terrible handwriting.

Cursive writing can be faster than writing in print, as continuous strokes allow for a quicker writing speed, making cursive useful for note-taking and other situations where speed is important.

Cursive writing was once a standard part of school curriculums, but when Common Core education standards removed it from the required curriculum in 2010, cursive's prevalence declined, ...

However, in the U.S., numerous schools no longer teach cursive writing and have instead dropped its instruction in favor of Common Core standards, which is a set of educational standards developed ...