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.

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 ...

Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago. In 2010, most states adopted which omitted cursive handwriting from expected academic skills to be learned by K-8 students.

Recording “Recluse I Don’t Have to Love” has been a longtime inside joke between Bright Eyes and Cursive, who noted the similarities between the two songs’ lyrics and hooks years ago ...

Rouan explained the potential difference between printing and cursive, suggesting that “when you’re printing something, you draw the letter and then you stop and then you draw the next letter ...

I knew Sister Margaret Mary was gone. But while many public schools scrapped cursive over the last decade, Catholic schools often held on, valuing penmanship as a discipline. I wondered if Our Lady of ...

Five states began requiring cursive in the 2018-2019 school year. California and New Hampshire joined the list in 2023 and Kentucky and Iowa in 2024 became the most recent states to require cursive.

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.

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 ...

Learning cursive used to be standard in classrooms across the United States, with penmanship graded. Once typewriters became common and later computers, it started to disappear.

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.