In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.

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

And she is with us now to talk about her article, "Gen Z Never Learned To Read Cursive." Drew Gilpin Faust, welcome. Thank you so much for joining us. DREW GILPIN FAUST: Thank you for having me.

Gen Z or Generation Z consists of everyone born between 1997 and 2012, according to Pew Research. Cursive writing practice sheets Now that you know that cursive is falling by the wayside, it may ...

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 ...

Once a standard in elementary schools, cursive is no longer taught to all students. A Maine lawmaker would like to change that. After watching her teacher trace the downward and upward curves of a ...

Get a read on this. The National Archives is seeking volunteers who can read cursive to help transcribe more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog, saying the skill is a “superpower ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

With mandatory cursive back in the Statehouse conversation, we asked our staff to write this sentence. How did we do? News Sports Indy 500 Things To Do Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.