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The National Archives contains many historical documents written in cursive, some of which date back more than 200 years. The agency digitizes tens of millions of records every year. It uses ...
Fast-forward 30-plus years and Sister Margaret Mary was the first person who came to mind when I read about two New Jersey ...
Who writes in cursive anymore? Maybe to sign checks or documents, but programs such as Docusign have even made this practice, ...
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 ...
If you cannot decipher cursive, you can’t really experience literature’s great works in their original version. Same for history’s more important letters, diaries, ledgers and other records, including ...
The Florida House passed the cursive handwriting bill unanimously, 131-0. Now, it must pass the Senate and be signed into law ...
Once upon a time, “keyboard” meant an expensive typewriter that weighed 40 pounds, so teaching penmanship in school seemed ...
Students who can’t read cursive will struggle to read important historical documents, such as the Declaration of Independence. “Beyond its practical applications, the ability to both write and ...
Imagine a time when children can’t read historical documents.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 ...