Jessica Taylor helps Laura Buttress, 10, and her sister Sarah, 9, with their cursive in a cursive enrichment class, in Trumbull, Conn. April 11th, 2012. Ned Gerard ...

At P.S. 166 in Queens, principal Jessica Geller said there was never a formal decision over the years to banish the teaching of cursive. “We just got busy with the addition of technology, and we ...