With all the divisions in this country, it’s amazing that the ability to round out your letters has become controversial, writes Laurel Vermilyea Cortes.

“I felt like I was learning a different language. Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said. The Archive’s Isaacs is clear that volunteers don’t have to start out ...

putting their skills reading old documents to work. For her generation, “cursive was a coming-of-age part of literacy in the 1980s. We learned cursive and then we could write like adults wrote ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – America’s premiere record-keeping department is looking for volunteers who are familiar with the dying art of cursive handwriting ... over 200 years old, with records ...

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 ...

Raise your hand if you’re one of the remaining few who can still read cursive! It’s a dying art in the age of the keyboard, and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA ...

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 ...

Get a read on this. The National Archives is seeking volunteers who can read cursive to help transcribe more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog, saying the skill is a “superpower.” ...

I really enjoy it,” said volunteer Tiffany Meeks, 37. “I felt like I was learning a different language. Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said.

“I felt like I was learning a different language. Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said. The Archives' Isaacs is clear that volunteers don’t have to ...

But these texts can be difficult to read and understand— particularly for Americans who never learned cursive in school. That’s why the National Archives is looking for volunteers who can help ...

“I felt like I was learning a different language. Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said. The Archive’s Isaacs is clear that volunteers don’t have ...