Cursive has been on the decline since 2010. Some of the effects are unexpected. Does losing cursive matter? Who is in Gen Z? Will ChatGPT replace archival work?

Once an essential skill, cursive writing is now a challenge for most people. But the jury is divided over its relevance in the digital age.

I hope that the time once devoted to teaching cursive can now be diverted to teaching students about the content of their writing rather than its physical form.

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Jae C. Hong/AP 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.

Have you ever tried to read your physician’s prescriptions? Children increasingly print their writing because they don’t know cursive or theirs is simply unreadable. I have a middle-school ...

Remember cursive writing? Well it fell out of favor but some schools are bringing it back and students are actually competing at mastering cursive writing.