The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting ...

In the ever-widen­ing con­ver­sa­tion of vir­tu­al learn­ing that has gripped the globe since the start of the pan­dem­ic, its ad­van­tages and dis­ad­van­tages, the dig­i­tal di­vide and those who ...

Perhaps the most well-known of the lost Greek letters is Digamma. Shaped like an F or a modern-day gamma with an extra stem, ...

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam's unique modern script, in part a legacy of French colonial rule.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...

Print To the editor: Nearly 200,000 ballots were flagged for signature issues in California . Even though many of these were verified, more than 83,000 votes were not able to be counted.

A Johns Hopkins archaeologist recycles a 20-year-old hypothesis that small clay cylinders found in an ancient tomb reset the genesis of letters by 500 years. Why are people listening now?

Before their discovery, a script from 1900 bc in Egypt was the oldest known alphabetic writing; it turned hieroglyphs into alphabetic letters of West Semitic languages.

A final draft of the Latin-based Uzbek alphabet -- with 29 letters and an apostrophe to denote a hard sign, specific sounds, or intonations -- was presented in 2019. Kazakhstan is set to complete ...

As its name indicates, Cursive Writing app is all about teaching kids the art of cursive writing. Kids will learn how to handwrite both lowercase and uppercase letters, combine and connect cursive ...

The letters are almost alike but Brahmi was written from left to right, while Kharashthi was written from right to left. Venerable Mahinda, the son of Emperor Ashoka, is generally credited with ...

Raamesh Gowri Raghavan first encountered the Brahmi script back in the 1990s. “These were Ashokan inscriptions,” says the Mumbai-based writer, epigraphist, digital marketer and scientist ...