Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation mandating cursive instruction in New Jersey schools. Was it really worth it?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida students could be put to the test on their cursive writing. (Stock photo via Getty Images) A proposal requiring testing ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

New Jersey public school students in the third, fourth and fifth grades will be taught cursive writing. That proposal was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy Monday on his last full day as the Garden ...

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A new state law signed Monday ...

Great Falls middle school students won the Congressional App Challenge with "Cursive Create," an app teaching cursive writing ...

New Jersey's public schools must by law teach students how to write cursive legibly and become fluent in reading it.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - It’s become the way moms, dads, and grandparents write in some parts of the country. Cursive writing is an art that has been disappearing for about 15 years. Since Missouri ...

As one of his final acts, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy paved the way for bringing cursive back Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has ...

New Jersey is flipping the script and ordering its public schools to bring back cursive writing starting next fall. In one of his final acts as governor, Phil Murphy on Monday signed legislation ...

A proposal requiring testing for Florida students’ cursive writing ability passed its second House committee Thursday, the last stop before it goes before the full House. HB 127 would put in state law ...

In one of his final acts, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new state law that mandates cursive instruction for grades three through five in all public schools "We owe it to our students to give them a ...