The cursive question has become a national one recently. In the murder trial of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Florida teen Trayvon Martin, Trayvon's 19-year-old friend, ...

NEW YORK – 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 ...

Jessica Taylor helps Laura Buttress, 10, and her sister Sarah, 9, with their cursive in a cursive enrichment class, in Trumbull, Conn. April 11th, 2012. Ned Gerard ...

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

Cursive may be easier to write than print — for many, at least — but it’s harder to read. And besides, because so many cursive letters differ significantly from their printed equivalents, ...