Have you ever wondered why English uses both uppercase and lowercase letters? While capitals begin sentences and proper nouns, and lowercase is used for everything else, this wasn’t always the case.

While cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated. The Common Core standards seemed to spell the end ...

But cursive has been on the decline since the rise of personal computers. In 2010, when most states adopted Common Core curriculum standards meant to equalize education in America, nothing about ...

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. This anti ...

But now, California is one of many states bringing cursive back to the classroom. As of this year, over 20 states now require a cursive writing curriculum, the Bee reported. Gov. Gavin Newsom recently ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law.

Cursive had its moment, somewhere between powdered wigs and the Pony Express. Kids today should be learning coding, robotics, digital literacy and how to spot AI-generated nonsense, not perfecting ...

Saving cursive isn’t about rejecting technology or trying to preserve our history—let alone any perceived societal advancement. (Yes, the arguments get that entrenched, that fast.) ...

Cursive, therefore, is vital to helping students master the standards of written expression and critical thinking, life skills that go well beyond the classroom.