The US state of Illinois has passed a law requiring school students to learn joined-up handwriting, or "cursive", overriding the governor's veto. It is no longer a requirement in US schools ...

I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive ... learning a way of writing that was more like us — a blur of activity, everything connected, an oddly-modular alphabet that ...

Although cursive started to disappear from classrooms years ago, educators say there are good reasons to keep teaching it, ...