Cursive Handwriting Will No Longer Be Taught in Schools Because It's a Big, Old Waste of Time Seven states are fighting to continue teaching penmanship in schools By John Boone Nov 15, 2013 6:52 PM ...

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

April 30, 2013. Should schools ... Common Core State Standards, a set of national benchmarks for American public schools, do not require students to learn cursive. As a result, ...

Cursive “enhances a child’s brain development, including memorization, and improves fine motor skills,” she wrote. Advertisement. So does playing chess, but I don’t see Newsom appointing ...

Cursive had its moment, somewhere between powdered wigs and the Pony Express. Kids today should be learning coding, robotics, digital literacy and how to spot AI-generated nonsense, not perfecting ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law last Friday that requires the teaching of cursive writing in schools for grades one through six.