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The American Philosophical Society in Old City is using AI to transcribe thousands of Revolutionary-era documents.
A bill for it to be taught in schools heads to the state Senate after passing last week in the House by a 195-8 margin.
Cursive is making a comeback. This fall, Georgia’s elementary students will officially dive back into the art of handwriting ...
Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...
Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...
Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have ...
Auctions Ancient Chinese Scroll Sparks Auction Frenzy—And an Eye-Watering Final Bid The 700-year-old cursive-script calligraphy by Rao Jie sold for $32 million after a heated bidding war.
To this day, I derive immense pleasure from old notes in my late mother’s handwriting (recently finding a handwritten diary she wrote when she’d just turned 12, a wonderful window into her ...
If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from ...
Being able to read cursive is just the start of deciphering older documents, said the National Archive’s Nancy Sullivan. The handwriting of the 18th and 19th centuries isn’t what today’s ...
Being able to read cursive is just the start of deciphering older documents, said the National Archive’s Nancy Sullivan. The handwriting of the 18 th and 19 th centuries isn’t what today’s ...
If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...