A couple in Indiana developed a free writing academy to help young people learn how to write and read cursive handwriting.

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.

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.

News Why some Ohio kids are still mastering the lost art of cursive Published: Mar. 23, 2025, 5:30 a.m. By Laura Hancock, cleveland.com ...

Cursive instruction sidelined In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature.

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.