Students currently learn cursive between third and fifth grade. If House Bill 127 becomes law, students will begin learning ...
Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.
The lower chamber voted 111 to 0 in favor of the legislation ( HB 127 ). But as also was the case in 2025, the aspirational ...
Critics of the proposal maintain that cursive writing is already taught at public schools and that the proposal would add to ...
Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) “Messy! Messy!” Nearly 40 years later, the ...
To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in ...