“Many of our private schools teach cursive writing,” Quirk Silva said ... adopted the 2010 Common Core State Standards for English and math, which didn’t include the out-of-fashion ...

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.

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive ...

VIRGINIA — Cursive writing is making a comeback in Virginia ... one of the lead writers of the English/language arts standards, told Education Week in 2016. “We thought that more and more ...

They lament writing out their exam essays by hand ... with at least 24 states now having some kind of cursive requirement for K-12 schools. But there are still cohorts of students whose education ...

Now, the school is ditching the 18th-century script for a more modern typeface. “Because cursive writing is no longer taught universally in K-12 education, the script — especially this highly ...