Only 37 percent wrote in cursive; another 8 percent printed. The majority - 55 percent - wrote a hybrid: some elements resembling print-writing, others resembling cursive.

Teacher Lester Betor, left, writes in cursive on the chalkboard for this fifth-grade class on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, at Slingerlands Elementary in Bethlehem, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union) ...

No more cursive (Nov. 28 letter)? Cursive writing is an art that requires control, thought and an intimacy with written words that is not possible with keyboard clicking.

At the London Public Library, cursive writing doesn't just join letters together — it also brings together the young and the old. The Beacock Branch library has been hosting an intergenerational ...