Cursive handwriting plays a part in developing them. Yoder said it helps stimulate the brain in a variety of ways that can have long-lasting implications in a way that typing does not.

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

Adults increasingly abandon cursive. In 2012, handwriting teachers were surveyed at a conference hosted by Zaner-Bloser, a publisher of cursive textbooks.

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

If you’re over 30, you’ll distinctly remember the hours of repetition as a school-aged child, practicing your handwriting on double-lined paper (both print and cursive) until your hand ached.

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal ...

Baerg said she learned cursive in third grade, but has never used it and has difficulty deciphering her parents' handwriting.

Handwriting matters -- but does cursive matter? The facts are surprising. For instance, it turns out that legible cursive writing averages no faster than printed handwriting of equal or greater ...

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.