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

The American Philosophical Society in Old City is using AI to transcribe thousands of Revolutionary-era documents.

As it stands, just 24 states require that cursive is taught in the classroom. But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 students in the U.S.

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...

To this day, I derive immense pleasure from old notes in my late mother’s handwriting (recently finding a handwritten diary she wrote when she’d just turned 12, a wonderful window into her ...

Experts say cursive writing has several benefits, such as improving fine motor skill development and eye-hand coordination more than printing. It is also believed to boost spelling and writing skills ...

Although cursive is not required in Arizona%2C many schools still teach it. Some say writing in cursive helps develop the brain.

Missouri State Reps. Renne Reuter (R-Imperial) and Petty McGaugh (R-Carrollton) have sponsored house bills 346 and 375, both of which would require cursive handwriting instruction and testing in ...

The news explains, “At the start of the experiment, the students were told to either write words in cursive using a digital pen on a touchscreen, or to type the same words using a keyboard. Meanwhile, ...

Researchers are learning that handwriting engages the brain in ways typing can't match, raising questions about the costs of ditching this age-old practice, especially for kids.