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. The students completed ...

Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. Cursive instruction ...

Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction.