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 ...

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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 ...

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a law mandating cursive instruction took effect in January 2024. “For some students, it’s a great alternative to printing, and it helps them be more accurate and more careful with the writing ...

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 uses Citizen Archivists who volunteer to help transcribe such materials. The ability to read cursive handwriting is helpful but not essential. “We create missions where we ask ...

That led to a pushback and today at least 14 states require that cursive handwriting be taught, including California in 2023. But it doesn’t mean that they actually use it in real life.

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 ...

Cursive seems to be a lost art, but there’s an opportunity for history enthusiasts, who also still value the traditional handwriting style. The National Archives is looking for volunteers to ...

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 ...