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The American Philosophical Society in Old City is using AI to transcribe thousands of Revolutionary-era documents.
Hendrickson, created by Rantautype Studio, is an elevated handwriting font that oozes class. The elegant typeface is ...
I stopped writing in cursive about the same time I quit wearing white socks and penny loafers, which is to say, junior high school. In elementary school in the 1960s, my left-handed scrawl was ...
If I had not learned to write cursive, I probably never would have learned to read it, and my archival work as a biographer—deciphering the handwritten letters of men and women born in the ...
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.
So modern advocates of cursive emphasize being able to read it, rather than write it. And kids do need to be able to decipher the letters they get from grandma.
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 ...
In Ontario this fall, Grade 3 students will be learning cursive script again, in a move that some educators are hailing as an important back-to-basics step to foundational education.
Under the bill, students must be taught to form cursive letters, proper spacing and alignment, and must practice writing complete words and sentences in cursive,” said Overdorf on the House ...
Cursive is having a moment in Connecticut with a new law that adds cursive writing to the state’s model kindergarten through eighth-grade curriculum. While the legislation does not mandate ...