Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools ...

In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Philip D. Murphy signed a bill on Monday requiring third, fourth and fifth graders ...

This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...

Students in New Jersey will soon learn cursive in school, thanks to a law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy.

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

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

Script is finding new life in after-school clubs where students can learn to loop and swoosh their handwriting.

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

Elementary school students in New Jersey will start to learn cursive again after Governor Phil Murphy signed a new bill into ...

The bill requires cursive instruction for students in grades 2 through 5.

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...