Gen Alpha could bring handwriting back

Cursive handwriting is making a big comeback in schools for students of the Gen Alpha generation (born between 2010 and 2025).

New Jersey and Pennsylvania are the most recent in a growing number of states to bring old-fashioned penmanship back into the classroom, with governors in both states enacting legislation this year requiring schools to teach it.

New Jersey had stopped requiring it in 2010—but new legislation now mandates schools there to teach cursive to kids ages 8 to 11, in third to fifth grades.