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

With all the divisions in this country, it’s amazing that the ability to round out your letters has become controversial, writes Laurel Vermilyea Cortes.

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 ...

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 ...

On Thursday, the State Assembly's Education Committee heard public comment on bills relating to curriculum, assessment programs and school board spending.

Although cursive remains an important skill for those keeping the history of the U.S., it's fallen out of favor as block writing, similar to the print that appears on computers, is used as the ...

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 ...

Musicians tend to soften with age. It's the natural way of things. Bands usually start as collectives of friends with fires ...

Reading cursive can now be added to the list of most-wanted skills – at least according to the U.S. National Archives and ...

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.