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.

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

Historically, cursive writing was a necessary skill. The ability to write quickly and legibly was essential for notetaking, personal correspondence, and even completing standardized forms.

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

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.

Teaching cursive writing became an optional curriculum in 2011 when Indiana adopted the Common Core State Standards for education. Since then, Sen. Jean Leising, R-Oldenburg, ...

However, in the U.S., numerous schools no longer teach cursive writing and have instead dropped its instruction in favor of Common Core standards, which is a set of educational standards developed ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...

However, in the U.S., numerous schools no longer teach cursive writing and have instead dropped its instruction in favor of Common Core standards, which is a set of educational standards developed ...