RALEIGH, N.C.—Across North Carolina and in dozens of other states, teachers are committing what once would have been heresy: They are writing off cursive script. At a growing number of schools ...

Or perhaps it was the nation’s schools who, in their refusal to teach children cursive, had spawned a generation of youth who could no sooner read a script logo than a Greek menu? [Images ...

But cursive instruction was in decline long before 2010, when most states adopted the Common Core curriculum standards, which say nothing about handwriting. Some script skeptics question the ...

Students start their day playing a game that puts their cursive writing skills to the ... on the paper as he writes out letters and words in script. Besides that, he said, “Writing a regular ...

There isn't a lot of research specifically on cursive writing, Peterson said, but the work that has been done shows that it not only teaches students the skill of writing that script in and of ...