To engage citizen volunteers and make the American story more accessible, the National Archives is enlisting everyone it can ...

The ability to read cursive handwriting is helpful. American’s skill with this connected form of script has been slowly ...

One consequence of our digital age is a decline in cursive, the flowing style of penmanship once considered a common skill. While plenty of people still sign their name in cursive, being able to ...

In 2010, the newly established Common Core State Standards program, which outlines skills and knowledge students should acquire between kindergarten and high school, did not include cursive in its ...

BERLIN — A leafless, lifeless tree is among the most striking new emojis coming to our smartphones in the coming weeks, as part of the latest batch being released by the Unicode Consortium ...

Raise your hand if you’re one of the remaining few who can still read cursive! It’s a dying art ... that were quickly inscribed in inky script are waiting to be transcribed for accessibility.

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at ...

Get a read on this. The National Archives is seeking volunteers who can read cursive to help transcribe more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog, saying the skill is a “superpower.” ...

“It’s not just a matter of whether you learned cursive in school, it’s how much you use cursive today,” she said. Americans' skill with this connected form of script has been slowly waning ...