This is not throwing shade. It is a fact that in 2010, the U.S. government officially removed cursive from the required Common Core Standards for K-12 education.

Read: Don’t write off cursive Yet the decline in cursive seems inevitable. Writing is, after all, a technology, and most technologies are sooner or later surpassed and replaced.

The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back cursive writing after learning her granddaughter, a sixth-grader at Fountain Middle School, doesn’t know how to read or write in cursive.

Teaching cursive writing became an optional curriculum in 2011 when Indiana adopted the Common Core State Standards for education.

California is now one of over 20 states mandating cursive writing learning in the classroom.

Starting this year, students in third, fourth and fifth grades will learn how to read and write in cursive as part of their weekly library instruction.

Learning to write in cursive may no longer be popular in American schools, but education experts stress that the craft can be beneficial to students in more ways than one.

The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.

Georgia classrooms reintroduce cursive writing for students from third to fifth grade, making it part of assessed coursework.

Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age.