ST. PAUL — Shoulders hunched and tongues curled, the third-graders at Horace Mann School push their pencils to practice a fading art. As they copy out their spelling lists, joining loops and lines ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

For 30 minutes each day, Mikayla Blalock’s fourth grade students at Samuel E. Hubbard Elementary School in Monroe County focus on what some consider a lost art in the digital age: 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 ...