Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Thanks, Miss Hutchins. But soon, learning how to write cursive might be as dated as my hairstyle ...

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law.

Third-graders would focus on writing complete words, thoughts, and answers to questions, and fourth-graders would need to be able to complete their assignments outright in cursive.

A New Jersey lawmaker has introduced a bill requiring elementary schools in the state to teach students how to read and write in cursive by the end of third grade.

And to read cursive, you should be able to write cursive as well," said Adams. The proposed legislation would require "instruction in cursive handwriting or joined italics to be taught in the ...

Lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the South – are carving out space in teachers’ classroom time to keep the graceful loops of cursive writing alive for the next generation.