When third grade students make the transition from printing to cursive writing, they must learn 26 new lowercase and capital letter shapes. This is a time-consuming and often traumatic transition.

Cursive writing instruction was dropped from national Common Core standards in 2010, leaving it up to states to decide whether to teach it. There’s no statewide requirement in Pennsylvania.

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.