Script is finding new life in after-school clubs where students can learn to loop and swoosh their handwriting.

Two and a half years ago, I presented a carefully thought-out argument for not requiring schools to teach cursive, calling it ...

NEW YORK - Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand. Alabama and ...

While working through new national education standards, known as Common Core, North Carolina legislators want to make sure students don’t miss out on “the basics.” The Common Core standards were ...

Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for. If you can read cursive, the National Archives ...

For centuries, the educated, wealthy and refined could be distinguished by their ability to put quill to parchment, vellum or paper and create beautiful, flowing letters. The delicately formed cursive ...

Many schools dropped cursive writing as computer use spread, and South Carolina hasn't required it since 2008. A state Senate panel approved a requirement to bring it back but the cost is $27 million.

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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 from ...

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 from ...

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