The loops and curls of cursive handwriting have all but vanished from college essay exam blue books. On rare occasions when college students write by hand, nearly all of them use what educators call ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

I can’t remember how to write a capital Z in cursive. The rest of my letters are shaky and stiff, my words slanted in all directions. It’s not for lack of trying. In grade school I was one of those ...

Semi-ambidextrous Nicholas Cronquist rebelled against third-grade cursive lessons. “I remember I hated it and I told my teacher I thought it was dumb,” he says. Cronquist, now 26, eventually learned ...