A third-grader practices his cursive handwriting at P.S.166 in the Queens borough of New York. Mary Altaffer AP With the governor’s signature (no doubt in cursive), California Assembly Bill 446 was ...

I got a letter. A real letter. The kind that comes in an envelope with a stamp and a hand-written address in pretty cursive. I waved it at my coworkers. My heart leaps when I see an envelope ...

I am of an age when we had to learn cursive writing. If I recall, it was in the fourth grade. My grandchildren do not know how to write in cursive, and their printing is very sloppy and hard to read.

With the governor’s signature (no doubt in cursive), California Assembly Bill 446 was passed this October, making cursive instruction in public elementary schools mandatory in grades one through six.