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

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 in ...

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 ...

This bill, filed on Feb. 23 by State Rep. Tobin Overdorf (R-Palm City), aims to expand cursive-writing requirements in the state’s public schools for students in grades two through five.