Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

“Reading cursive is a superpower,” Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, DC, told USA TODAY.

Cursive handwriting is again part of the California elementary school curriculum under a bill signed into law this month. Assembly Bill 446, sponsored by Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-La Palma), amends ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” McKnight said.

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 ...

At St. Brigid — where the school logo is written in cursive – third graders are always excited to learn cursive, said teacher Cindy Halpin, who has been teaching it for 36 years.

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 ...

A third-grade student practices cursive writing in a 2023 file photo. To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in ...

Cursive is having a moment in Connecticut with a new law that adds cursive writing to the state’s model kindergarten through eighth-grade curriculum. While the legislation does not mandate ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...