According to The Washington Post, even though this form of handwriting used to be a mainstay of American public education, ...

(What ever happened to cursive writing?) “We think that our results can be partly explained by how handwriting activates different pathways to the same concept,” says Robert Wiley, a professor ...

Cursive handwriting instruction started disappearing ... according to the National Museum of American History. Without knowing how to write cursive, today’s students are unable to read founding ...

The US state of Illinois has passed a law requiring school students to learn joined-up handwriting, or "cursive", overriding the governor's veto. It is no longer a requirement in US schools ...