Approximately 20 volunteers from the university and community squinted at the curled lettering to decipher the cursive for posterity. They were provided with laptops to create typed transcripts of the ...

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...

State Representative Dane Watro, one of the cosponsors of the Pennsylvania bill, argues that cursive “connects us to our history, strengthens learning and deepens our understanding of the world.” ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

Common Core educational standards no longer require students to learn cursive, but supporters of longhand writing refuse to let it die. Eleven states either require or encourage the teaching of ...

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, ...

Are you a superhero? You might be if you can read cursive. And just like those superheroes in comic books and movies, those powers are needed more than ever. Queue the spotlight. The National Archives ...

In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...