To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in Ohio comes down on the side of teaching cursive handwriting.

Cursive is somewhat of a lost art, but is it easy to retain? We asked 11 adults to try writing a sentence -- no Googling allowed.

There’s now less of a focus on teaching children how to cursive write in schools, and while you might think, “So what? I learned how to cursive write and I don’t do it on a regular basis ...

Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and writing in longhand generally helps students retain more information and generate more ideas.