The American Philosophical Society in Old City is using AI to transcribe thousands of Revolutionary-era documents.

In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.

Is handwriting, particularly cursive, really necessary in the digital age? Increasingly, the answer is not really. Common Core standards issued in 2010 do not include any requirements for ...

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

Children have to learn how to write letters. The debate in schools over the past two decades has been whether they should they learn to write in cursive or print. Some say that with so many student… ...

Teachers are in the middle of a school year and likely not equipped with the proper resources — let alone the training — needed to teach cursive. Many teachers themselves do not write in cursive.

Across the country, schools are no longer teaching cursive writing. We asked members of the Times-Union Email Interactive Group whether this is a wise move. Here is a representative sampling of ...

In addition, cursive writing has been shown to improve left-right brain synergy and even promote the brain’s language and memory functions. On a practical level, it’s faster, allowing cursive ...

Learning handwriting is more about training the brain than cursive script Published: January 26, 2016 11:16am EST. Mark Mon-Williams, University of Leeds. Author. Mark Mon-Williams ...

Cursive writing has disappeared from many elementary schools' curriculum as it has taken a backseat to teaching students keyboarding.