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 ...

Who writes in cursive anymore? Maybe to sign checks or documents, but programs such as Docusign have even made this practice, ...

Fast-forward 30-plus years and Sister Margaret Mary was the first person who came to mind when I read about two New Jersey ...

If you cannot decipher cursive, you can’t really experience literature’s great works in their original version. Same for ...

Once upon a time, “keyboard” meant an expensive typewriter that weighed 40 pounds, so teaching penmanship in school seemed ...

Imagine a time when children can’t read historical documents. Young adults can barely ... confess they don’t know how to write in cursive. This might sound like the handwriting apocalypse ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

Modesto City Schools Superintendent Sara Noguchi said one reason students should know cursive is to more easily read primary sources and historical documents that were written that way. Cognitive ...

She also noted that students who learn to write and recognize cursive are better equipped to read historical documents and primary sources, such as the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.