But as schools go high-tech, the move may spell the end for cursive writing. The Common Core State Standards, a set of national benchmarks for American public schools, d IE 11 is not supported.

And though I still write that way, thank you very much, I haven't used script since elementary school. I type, I Twitter, I Facebook and IM. I e-mail co-workers who sit feet from my desk, and text ...

While cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated. The Common Core standards seemed to spell the end ...

Though mostly relegated to thank-yous to grandma, cursive writing not extinct, area schools still teach it By Erin Duffy / World-Herald staff writer May 5, 2015 ...

Defenders of script argued variously that knowledge of cursive was “a basic right,” a key connection between hand and brain, an essential form of self-discipline, and a fundamental expression ...

If you’ve ever had to look up the Bill of Rights — an occupational hazard in journalism — you’ve probably mostly seen it printed in books or on websites in plain text.

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...