To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in Ohio comes down on the side of teaching cursive handwriting.

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

Georgia's updated English Language Arts standards will require cursive writing instruction for students in grades 3 through 5.

Do schools in Louisiana still teach cursive writing? Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized.

In California, a new law will require all students there to learn cursive handwriting — a skill that had been mandatory for generations, but started to fall by the wayside in the digital age.

Less than 10 years ago, only 14 states required schools to teach cursive— but that number has been steadily increasing, with 24 now having some kind of requirement.

“Reading cursive is a superpower,” Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, DC, told USA TODAY.

Terrell and Chelsea Whittington said they are launching Cursive Academy to reintroduce the art of cursive in their community.

Do schools in Louisiana still teach cursive writing? Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized.

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.