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

"I'm a history major," said Barnes. "One of the times it really got to me was when I was looking through an old arrest report ...

Then, as early as the 1st century CE, minuscule began to emerge: smaller, rounder letters that required fewer strokes. You could write them more quickly than their majuscule count ...

However, the way they developed their writing system may seem peculiar to modern readers. Their texts are known to lack spaces between words, completely lack lowercase letters, and even punctuation ...

The materials include Revolutionary War pension records, immigration documents from the 1890s and Japanese evacuation records. Cursive writing is traced back to ancient Roman scribes, which eventually ...

Also read: Is cursive a dying art? If passed, it would mandate that cursive writing is taught in all Maine elementary schools. Underwood says he was approached by a constituent with the proposal ...

WASHINGTON — Reading cursive writing is a skill that could be fading away over time. But if you know how to read cursive, the National Archives could use your help. The U.S. National Archives ...

A student at Orangethorpe Elementary School practices writing cursive as California grade school students are being required to learn cursive handwriting this year, in Fullerton, California ...

It’s an uphill – but by no means impossible – battle to become comfortable with reading and writing the conjoined script. And it opens up access to a wealth of older documents. Cursive is ...

There is also some evidence that learning cursive benefits the brain. “More and more neuroscience research is supporting the idea that writing out letters in cursive, especially in comparison to ...