California kept cursive in its state standards for 3rd and 4th grades, but it wasn’t enforced, Quirk-Silva said, leaving it up to the discretion of districts and often individual teachers.

News Brief. Thursday, October 19, 2023 — 10:23 am. New California bill requires students to learn cursive. A new bill that requires first through sixth graders to learn cursive was signed into law ...

California kept cursive in its state standards for 3rd and 4th grades, but it wasn’t enforced, Quirk-Silva said, leaving it up to the discretion of districts and often individual teachers.

"Cursive writing shall be taught in all public schools. Each public school shall ensure that such instruction is introduced by the third grade and incorporated into the curriculum in grades four ...

Years after many considered it a lost art, cursive is now required in California classroom instruction up to the sixth grade. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 446 in the fall, but it didn’t take ...

Cursive instruction waned after Common Core Standards were adopted by most states in 2010, but in recent years, cursive ...

But in 2010, when 41 states, including California, signed on to the nationwide Common Core State Standards, cursive was not included in the curriculum. The rationale: in a computerized world, old ...

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“I didn’t know how to read it,” said Sierra, 8, a third-grader at Dublin Elementary School. “I thought it was like a different language.” ...