In a bipartisan show of appreciation for the twists and curls of cursive writing, state Sen. Curtis Trent and state Reps.

Still, handwriting continued to be considered a necessary skill until the 1990s, when many people shifted to email and then in the 2000s to texting. Enter Common Core standards and cursive no ...

Maybe it was the fact that in the States, there’s no real rite of passage attached to learning to write in either script or cursive, except that you escaped the bad marks in the penmanship ...

The ability to read cursive handwriting is helpful but not essential. “We create missions where we ask volunteers to help us transcribe or tag records in our catalog,” Isaacs said. To ...

The National Archives is looking for volunteers with the “superpower” of reading cursive to transcribe some 2 million pages of handwritten Revolutionary War-era documents. So far, more than 100,000 ...

Leising, who has been a lawmaker off and on since 1988, filed Senate Bill 103, which would require schools to teach cursive and print handwriting ... What to know The style of penmanship left ...

The ability to read cursive handwriting is helpful but not essential. “We create missions where we ask volunteers to help us transcribe or tag records in our catalog,” Isaacs said. To ...

The rationale: in a computerized world, old-school handwriting is superfluous. In California, computer training quickly absorbed cursive study’s timeframe and funds. Still, protests against its ...

Being able to read the longhand script is a huge help because so many of the documents are written using it. “It’s not just a matter of whether you learned cursive in school, it’s how much ...