The role of cursive in our nation's history has often been cited as one reason to keep it. Many founding documents were written in ink with curly-Q letters spelling out the birth of a nation.

Teaching cursive is once again the law for kids in California — news that adults greet with celebration, nostalgia, scorn, indifference and head-scratching.

Cursive has two special advantages over printing: it promotes a higher-level mental development, and it can nurture a child’s emotions and motivation for learning and achievement.

According to mycursive.com, a website that tracks cursive writing requirements nationwide, 14 states in 2016 required schools to teach cursive writing. During the 2018-19 school year, that number ...

Letters to the Editor: If kids must learn cursive, old folks should learn to use smartphones A fourth-grade student practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena last month.

Context In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills.

The role of cursive in our nation's history has often been cited as one reason to keep it. Many founding documents were written in ink with curly-Q letters spelling out the birth of a nation.