Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, ...

The ability to read cursive handwriting is helpful but not essential ... widows had to prove they were married so they often ...

That led to a pushback and today at least 14 states require that cursive handwriting be taught, including California in 2023. But it doesn’t mean that they actually use it in real life.

Cursive writing fell out of fashion in the computer ... “I think cursive, if that’s something that’s simple, that is proving to increase reading scores and tests that we’re seeing.

Not to mention simple poor penmanship ... on her perfect penmanship but today says her handwriting is “atrocious.” Still, she can read cursive with the best of them and it’s become ...