She can sign her name in cursive, but outside of us making her write thank-you notes and address envelopes, she’s not used it consistently either. And when I ask her to, it’s a chore. “Ugh. Mom.

California mandates cursive handwriting instruction in elementary schools More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning ...

Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you ...

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.

Why Cursive Is Finally Making a Comeback in Public Schools Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. By Shawn Datchuk | Contributor May 7, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.

Cursive had its moment, somewhere between powdered wigs and the Pony Express. Kids today should be learning coding, robotics, digital literacy and how to spot AI-generated nonsense, not perfecting ...

“Reading cursive is a superpower,” Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, DC, told USA TODAY.

The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking volunteer citizen archivists to help them classify and/or transcribe ...

Cursive’s declining popularity has also prompted rebrands. Eddie Bauer retired its script logo, while in Maryland, Washington College changed its logo, which used George Washington’s signature ...

The National Archives is currently looking for volunteers who have the ability to read cursive writing to help them transcribe and tag records of over 200 years' worth of documents. Amid the rise ...