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.

Even before the new law took effect on Jan. 1, cursive was a California learning goal in grades 3 and 4, but the state and school districts had not enforced its teaching or tested to see whether ...

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. Let's take a moment now ...

"Cursive writing shall be taught in all public schools. Each public school shall ensure that such instruction is introduced ...

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

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 ...

As schools have drifted away from cursive writing instruction, one Gary couple is launching classes in the flowing writing ...

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 ...