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.

Many historical documents, famous diaries and letters and family histories are penned in cursive, said said ... 2010 Common Core State Standards for English and math, which didn’t include ...

Testing of Virginia learners begins in the second grade, where letter structuring is examined. In the third grade, the ability of the student to construct readable cursive text is tested.

Those concerns have reached state education departments and legislatures, with at least 24 states now having some kind of cursive requirement ... they knew the letters and numbers, and they ...

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 ...