None of this should bother me. My children know how to print their letters. And they type frighteningly well. Still, I can’t escape the conviction that cursive—writing it and knowing how to ...

Common Core forgoes cursive and instead says that, by first grade, children should be able to print the alphabet. By fourth grade, they should be able to type a minimum of one page in a single ...

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 ...

I type all day. I swipe and tap on my phone. I scribble notes to myself on paper. I’m happy with my mostly-digital life. But every now and then I’ll get a handwritten note—from an old lady ...

Cursive writing requires a very different skill set from print writing, involves using hand muscles in a different way, which activates a different part of the brain. Reinforces learning.