"Today more and more I meet high school students who, though they can read, sometimes well and sometimes poorly, are ashamed whenever they are confronted with the need to sign a document." ...

According to the website readingrockets.org, cursive handwriting in the early grades is linked to basic reading and spelling achievement.

Today's students may still learn cursive writing, but so rarely use it they forget how. One Roosevelt High teacher in Seattle decided to try to remedy that by giving her students a short cursive ...