The skill of writing in cursive nearly disappeared during the pandemic, but students at an elementary school in Georgia are ...

The attention cursive writing gets is in decline. From what I can see as an educator, the expectation to write in cursive beyond elementary school is essentially absent in some schools.

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 ...

“With cursive, the synchrony between the right and the left side of the brain are activated -- not in typing, not in printing,” she said. “So cursive writing is using more of the brain.

The problem is, using and reading cursive is turning into a lost art. We spoke to Metro Detroiters to see how often they write in cursive, and put them to the test.

Cursive writing is introduced in second grade about halfway through the school year and reinforced in higher grades. Rost uses a chapter book, “Muggie Maggie,” to introduce the skill.

Skinner North Classical School teacher Crystal Oswald shows students in her cursive-writing class how to write a script “h.” For years, Oswald oversaw the school’s Cursive Club.

And three more said they don’t teach cursive writing at all; however, D-70 in Pueblo said they’re discussing bringing it back. Before 2009, most kids were taught cursive writing in the third ...

Writing in cursive remains a large part of our culture, Superintendent Graham said. “We need to be careful about losing that, because so much of the basics is driven by technology,” she said.

Cursive is an art. It’s woven into the very fabric of the United States constitution. Yet, everywhere we look, it’s literally being written out of existence. Like a sandcastle built at the ...