When do I get to learn cursive in school?" Andrea Kiesling is a special education teacher at Alvis Elementary School in Clayton, New Mexico. She is a 2022-2023 Teach Plus New Mexico Policy Fellow.

I eventually learned to write cursive with a straight left hand, not the curved cramped claw that some lefties develop. Based ...

Why Cursive Is Finally Making a Comeback in Public Schools Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. By Shawn Datchuk | Contributor May 7, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it.