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.

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 ...

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.

“Reading cursive is a superpower,” Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, DC, told USA TODAY.

Replacing cursive writing will be keyboarding, which makes sense given the way most of us communicate this days. Keyboarding is an essential skill in today's world, not just for work either.

Halle Giles' favorite letter to write is Z. The 8-year-old gets such pleasure from crafting the letter's swooping curve and looped tail that she practices writing Zs at home.

Gen Z voters who struggle with cursive could slow the vote count, Nevada's secretary of state said. He said more mail ballots have been rejected because of issues with young voters' signatures.

Relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, cursive writing is set to return as a mandatory part of the curriculum starting in September.

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 ...