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.

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.

To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in Ohio comes down on the side of teaching cursive handwriting.

She can sign her name in cursive, but outside of us making her write thank-you notes and address envelopes, she’s not used it consistently either. And when I ask her to, it’s a chore. “Ugh. Mom.

Historically, cursive writing was a necessary skill. The ability to write quickly and legibly was essential for notetaking, personal correspondence, and even completing standardized forms.

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

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 ...

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 ...

2. Script font part 2, 2016. The uniforms in 2015 were so good, the league ran it back in 2016 with essentially the same formula. And it still worked!

Cursive may be a casualty of technology, but its cognitive benefits remain timeless. LLMs, on the other hand, are redefining how we think, learn, and create in the digital age.

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Cursive is back in Iowa schools. The ability to read and write cursive has been fading from American society. “You just don’t see very many people using cursive because a ...

Learning cursive handwriting is proven to improve students' neural and motor function, as well as their grammar, handwriting, and spelling. It can also assist them with reading historical documents." ...