A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...

Oscar Sanchez, a fifth-grader at Enders Elementary, works on his cursive handwriting on Thursday. The class is trying out an old-school handwriting curriculum to see how explicit cursive writing ...

Cursive writing, when done right, looks like art: Letters flow elegantly into each other, the pen or pencil never rising off nor smudging the page. It is pretty. It is formal. But is it useful enough ...