The National Archives is looking for volunteers with the “superpower” of reading cursive to transcribe some 2 million pages ...

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The National Archives needs volunteers to help transcribe historical documents written in cursive. This citizen-led initiative makes American history more accessible to researchers and genealogists.

It's not the first time a Pennsylvania lawmaker has proposed legislation that would mandate that cursive be taught in elementary schools.

A new bill making its way through the New Jersey state legislature could require public schools to teach cursive writing from ...

To engage citizen volunteers and make the American story more accessible, the National Archives is enlisting everyone it can ...

Senators Shirley Turner and Angela McKnight have proposed making cursive a mandatory skill to teach in New Jersey schools.

Literacy is a gift we give our children. It’s reading a poem by, say, Joseph Bruchac and understanding not just the words, ...

Fourth and eighth graders in Tennessee's public schools showed growth and outperformed their national peers in reading and math in the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress. The results ...

testing fourth- and eighth-grade students on math and reading. “The news is not good,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which oversees the assessment.

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...