Jae C. Hong/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.

These defenders of cursive writing say they’re spurred into action by the Common Core — new standards for what students should know and be able to do in language arts and math.

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from ...