A new bill proposed in the Idaho Senate aims to require all Idaho students to be proficient at reading and writing in cursive by the end of 5th grade.

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million ... handwriting on the presumption that most of the writing students would do would be on computers.

We learned cursive and then we could write like adults wrote,” she said ... And many obsolete terms and legal words that can flummox even the most erudite readers. “It feels like solving ...