The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking volunteer citizen archivists to help them classify and/or transcribe more than ...

By 2010, the Common Core teaching standards emphasized keyboard skills (once taught as “typewriting”) and no longer required handwriting on the presumption that most of the writing students would do ...

A new bill making its way through the New Jersey state legislature could require public schools to teach cursive writing from ...

Do you remember the last time you wrote in cursive? Do you still know how to read it? If so, the National Archives is looking ...

I preach to my kids to expand their horizons and do things outside of their comfort zones, yet I have been happy behind a computer keyboard tapping out my thoughts and telling others’ stories for ...

The National Archives is looking for volunteers with the “superpower” of reading cursive to transcribe some 2 million pages ...

But it doesn’t mean that they actually use it in real life. In the past, most American students began learning to write in cursive in third grade, making it a rite of passage, said Jaime ...

Two lawmakers have introduced bills that would require students to learn cursive handwriting in Missouri schools.

For years, Missouri lawmakers have tried to make teaching cursive a requirement, but concerns regarding technology and ...

By 2010, the Common Core teaching standards emphasized keyboard skills (once taught as “typewriting”) and no longer required handwriting on the presumption that most of the writing students would do ...