"It's seeing the writing on the wall," said Patricia Granada, principal at Eagle View Elementary in Fairfax County, Va. "Cursive is increasingly becoming obsolete." Michael Hairston, president of ...

In classrooms, unfortunately, it has become common for cursive writing to function as a condition ... date that I was trying to place on the top line of the paper — what my teacher called ...

In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills.