NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand ...

But one entrepreneurial rabbi, Issamar Ginzberg, hopes to encourage handwriting through his new educational flash card game, Cool Cursive.

In addition to the medals and certificates, the children received prizes from the “Cursive Is Cool” corporate sponsors. Some of the prizes awarded to students included new writing instruments ...

Studies comparing the differences between writing and typing often don't distinguish between cursive and print, he said. And in studies that do compare the two, the results aren't strong, he said.

In this Wednesday, March 1, 2017, photo, a third-grader practices his cursive handwriting at P.S. 166 in the Queens borough of New York. Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools.

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...