But when you write in cursive you write those letters very curvy. - Ooh - Exactly. So when we write in cursive, you connect each letter to the letter that's in front of it and behind it.

A-hed; Cursive Is Coming Back, Now That Kids Can’t Read Grandma’s Letters More than a decade after many wrote off the handwriting style, states are bringing it back ...

And besides, because so many cursive letters differ significantly from their printed equivalents, they entail a learning burden that would be better spent on other, more useful tasks.

Cursive letters are written on a chalkboard. Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” ...

In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.

The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.