Plus, don't kids want to be able to read Grandma's letters or their teacher's handwritten comments on an assignment? 3.

which is a combination of print and cursive. But let’s back up a bit. I started learning to write in kindergarten, but that of course was in script, with separate letters. Me and my fellow ...

There is also some evidence that learning cursive benefits the brain. “More and more neuroscience research is supporting the idea that writing out letters in cursive, especially in comparison to ...

"I'm a history major," said Barnes. "One of the times it really got to me was when I was looking through an old arrest report ...

The ability to read cursive handwriting is helpful but not essential ... strange and inventive spellings, old forms of letters (a double S was sometimes written as a “long s” and looked ...

Being able to read cursive is just the start of deciphering older documents, said the National Archive’s Nancy Sullivan. The handwriting of the 18 th and 19 th centuries isn’t what today’s third ...

That led to a pushback and today at least 14 states require that cursive handwriting be taught, including California in 2023. But it doesn’t mean that they actually use it in real life.