With the ability to read and write cursive becoming more rare, the National Archives is looking for some important volunteers ...

With the ability to read and write cursive becoming more rare, the National Archives is looking for some important volunteers ...

There was something thrilling about getting a personal letter, particularly written in someone’s actual hand. Coffee stains, ...

shironosov/Getty Reading cursive ... when writing in cursive was the standard form of penmanship, the outlet said. Patrick Donovan/Getty Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily ...

Although cursive remains an important skill for those keeping the history of the U.S., it's fallen out of favor as block writing, similar to the print that appears on computers, is used as the ...

The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive. You can sign up online.

By 2010, the Common Core teaching standards emphasized keyboard skills (once taught as “typewriting”) and no longer required handwriting on the presumption that most of the writing students would do ...