Lawmakers worried students wouldn't know how to sign a check. Students in New Jersey may be required to learn how to read and write cursive by the end of the third grade. A new bill, which was ...

About 75 percent of second- and third-grade teachers continue to include cursive instruction in their curriculum despite concerns that the artful writing is on the decline, according to a new ...

Because cursive required a level of fine-motor skills not typically accessible before third grade, printing was embraced as a way to get younger children to express themselves through writing.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in ... encouraged the teaching of cursive to students, generally in the third grade. "It's definitely not necessary but I think it ...

He recently beat out nearly 250,000 kids his age to win the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest, which makes him the third grader ... her students practice cursive writing at least twice ...

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s ...

In Montgomery Public Schools, knowing how to write cursive starts in second grade. By third grade, students should be proficient in writing words and sentences in cursive. Lexi's Law gives more ...