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

Zaner-Bloser took over with its two distinct alphabets for print and cursive, but the wide differences between the two in the letterforms led to the development of D’Nealian in 1978.

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

RASCOE: Ms. Brooks has a cursive alphabet up on the wall and says her students are excited to learn it. And the most frequent question she gets at the beginning of each school year is this.

To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in Ohio comes down on the side of teaching cursive handwriting.

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

Camille, who was happy to be learning her name letter, said she found lowercase Z tricky because “they don’t look anything like a Z” and loves making the bumps of an M. She thinks all kids ...

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.

As news of cursive’s addition to the K-8 model spread, one teacher on Twitter questioned when she would find the time to teach a new alphabet when most students “will only ever use it to sign ...