Turns out it’s mostly a lost art. Printing and typing? No problem. But cursive writing has truly become the hieroglyphics of this generation. I specifically remember being a fourth grader with ...

Supporters argue cursive writing has cognitive and developmental benefits and is still relevant in a digital world. Similar legislation has been introduced in previous sessions but failed to ...

The federal organization tasked with archiving the country’s most precious records and documents is currently looking for volunteers who can read the cursive writing of over 200 years' worth of ...

The materials include Revolutionary War pension records, immigration documents from the 1890s and Japanese evacuation records. Cursive writing is traced back to ancient Roman scribes, which eventually ...

as cursive writing was once called, according to thehenryford website's article on Handwriting in America. Want to read the Declaration of Independence in its original format? It's written in cursive.

A student at Orangethorpe Elementary School practices writing cursive as California grade school students are being required to learn cursive handwriting this year, in Fullerton, California ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like ... longer required handwriting on the presumption that most of the writing students would do would be on computers.

There is also some evidence that learning cursive benefits the brain. “More and more neuroscience research is supporting the idea that writing out letters in cursive, especially in comparison to ...

"It's easy to do for a half hour a day or a week,” Suzanne Isaacs, community manager with the National Archives Catalog, said Reading cursive can now be added to the list of most-wanted skills ...

Though sometimes the oldest writing is the easiest to read, said Cantrell. “If you look at Abigail Adams' letters to her husband (President John Adams) and his responses, the cursive is an art ...

a law mandating cursive instruction took effect in January 2024. “For some students, it’s a great alternative to printing, and it helps them be more accurate and more careful with the writing ...

It’s an uphill – but by no means impossible – battle to become comfortable with reading and writing the conjoined script. And it opens up access to a wealth of older documents. Cursive is ...