Others say cursive helps students write faster than print, and that they need it to develop a signature. Technology Took Priority So why didn’t the common-core writers include cursive?

College students today rarely write by hand, and when they do, nearly all print rather than write in cursive.

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal ...

In fact, the standards only briefly mention print handwriting, a writing style in which the individual letters of a word are unconnected, as a skill to be taught in early elementary grades.

On the other hand, students who learned printing in the first grade and then began cursive writing in the second grade made the least progress in spelling.