Get a read on this. The National Archives is seeking volunteers who can read cursive to help transcribe more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog, saying the skill is a “superpower.” The ...

One consequence of our digital age is a decline in cursive, the flowing style of penmanship once considered a common skill. While plenty of people still sign their name in cursive, being able to read ...

If you are talented at reading cursive handwriting, the National Archives could really use your help with transcribing and ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, ...

Gabriella Rustebakke watches as her son, Paul Rustebakke, practices writing his letters in cursive during a lesson at their home in Cedar Rapids in April 2023. Research at the University of Iowa has ...

In our home, we have a framed letter written by a Civil War soldier to his mother. That letter has been passed down for generations in my mother-in-law's family. In it, the soldier talks about the ...

New bills in Florida would mandate cursive instruction for students in second through fifth grade. Proponents argue cursive is important for reading historical documents and developing a personal ...

When directing the writing by hand, the brain has to visually track rapidly changing positions of the pencil and control hand and finger movements. To learn such skills, the brain must improve its ...