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 ...

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.

Cursive instruction waned after Common Core Standards were adopted by most states in 2010, but in recent years, cursive ...

Cursive “enhances a child’s brain development, ... That’s how I encountered a Macintosh for the first time in seventh-grade computer science and learned how to type in 10th grade, ...

Pennsylvania is on track to mandate teaching cursive in elementary schools. The bill overwhelmingly passed the state house ...

A 2020 study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found that students writing in cursive activated different electrical activity in the brain as compared to typing and argued ...

“The science behind it is that the kids are connecting the action of putting letters down, whether it’s cursive or anything,” said Brenner, who has a master’s degree in education and now ...

One study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found that cursive handwriting helps the brain learn and remember better, according to Psychology Today. Their data found cursive ...

Writing out the same word again and again in cursive may bring back bad memories for some, ... Psychological Science. Vol. 25, June 2014, p. 1159. doi: 10.1177/0956797614524581.

RASCOE: While Ayan does enjoy his Spanish lessons along with science, he feels cursive is harder to read and only something people did in the past. AYAN: I think of it as old. Like, a lot of kids ...

In this photo illustration, Jayme Rost, a second-grade teacher at West Point Elementary in Hempfield, demonstrates how she teaches cursive writing in her classroom, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.