The American Philosophical Society in Old City is using AI to transcribe thousands of Revolutionary-era documents.

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

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 ...

Cursive may be easier to write than print — for many, at least — but it’s harder to read. And besides, because so many cursive letters differ significantly from their printed equivalents, ...

Cursive letters are written on a chalkboard. Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” ...

The letters p,q,b, and d all look the same in print (don't believe me? Write them down right now on scrap paper) but different in cursive. In New Mexico, however, cursive is no longer a part of ...

In the abstract, researcher George Early speculated that, “One possible explanation is the continuity of movement in cursive, whereas in [print] writing, attention is given to single letters.

I type all day. I swipe and tap on my phone. I scribble notes to myself on paper. I’m happy with my mostly-digital life. But every now and then I’ll get a handwritten note—from an old lady ...

The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.

Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you ...

Kindergarten through First grade the students focus on the handwriting components. By 3rd grade, students must form all upper and lowercase cursive letters efficiently and proportionately, and ...