![Education – PBS NewsHour show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/037/022/small/education-coverage-pbs-newshour-podcast-pbs.jpg)
Summary: Starting in the 1970s, and under the recent implementation of the Common Core, a former pillar of elementary education has been largely forgotten. But there’s a feeling that learning cursive still has value, even in the age of typing and texting. The NewsHour's April Brown reports from North Carolina, one of a handful of states that's moved to make learning the formal, curlicue letters mandatory.