If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.
Cursive survives in select Minnesota schools but isn’t required teaching. Some lawmakers now want to mandate it, as more than ...
A state law signed last month will require cursive to be taught in all Pennsylvania elementary schools for the first time ...
A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...
In his 1961 novel The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck wrote of loss, “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” The death of NASA’s Exploration ...
Sen. Ann Rest (DFL-New Hope) recently introduced a bill in the Minnesota Legislature that would mandate cursive learning. I don’t advocate for or against the bill, but I can vouch ...
Sen. Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope, showed senators on the Education Policy Committee a picture of the Declaration of Independence on March 2, 2026, to note that the Founding Fathers wrote it in cursive.