The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking ...

a law mandating cursive instruction took effect in January 2024. “For some students, it’s a great alternative to printing, and it helps them be more accurate and more careful with the writing ...

Do you remember the last time you wrote in cursive? Do you still know how to read it? If so, the National Archives is looking ...

Senators Shirley Turner and Angela McKnight have proposed making cursive a mandatory skill to teach in New Jersey schools.

Two lawmakers have introduced bills that would require students to learn cursive handwriting in Missouri schools.

Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C.

For many, I suspect, the death of handwriting will be hardly felt, and most younger students will scarcely know what they are ...

That led to a pushback and today at least 14 states require that cursive handwriting be taught, including California in 2023. But it doesn’t mean that they actually use it in real life.

Although cursive remains an important skill for those keeping the history of the U.S., it's fallen out of favor as block writing, similar to the print that appears on computers, is used as the ...