In one of his final acts, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new state law that mandates cursive instruction for grades ...

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

Beginning in September, New Jersey public schools must teach cursive writing to students in grades three to five under a law ...

Sherisse Kenerson in Alexandria, Virginia, leads a club of sixth- through eighth-graders who want to know the art of looping ...

Print is dead. New Jersey is flipping the script and ordering its public schools to bring back cursive writing starting next ...

New Jersey elementary school students will learn how to write in cursive again after Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new bill into ...

I type all day. I swipe and tap on my phone. I scribble notes to myself on paper. I’m happy with my mostly-digital life. But every now and then I’ll get a handwritten note—from an old lady, ...

Elementary school teachers in New Jersey should be teaching cursive writing in 2026-27 thanks to a new law signed by Phil Murphy.