I hope that the time once devoted to teaching cursive can now be diverted to teaching students about the content of their writing rather than its physical form.

Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age.

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law.

Why Cursive Is Finally Making a Comeback in Public Schools Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script.

Others say cursive helps students write faster than print, and that they need it to develop a signature. Technology took priority So why didn’t the common-core writers include cursive?

Also, because computers. The biggest controversy to take place in the world of penmanship is happening right now: The Common Core education standards dictate that cursive will no longer be taught ...

Letters to the Editor: Learning cursive can be torture. Why force something so obsolete on kids? Fourth-grade students are taught cursive at a school in Pasadena on Dec. 14.

The real fear among those who study kids and handwriting is not that our schools will stop teaching cursive; it's that students aren't writing enough.