Capital Public Radio

What students lost since cursive writing was cut from the Common Core standards

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with historian Drew Gilpin Faust about her story in The Atlantic, "Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive." : [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly states that the ...
Inverse

The Common Core Push to Kill Cursive Is Bad Futurism Badly Executed

There are a lot of things about Common Core not to like, but perhaps the most viscerally unlikeable tenant of this leviathan educational system is the effort to eliminate cursive from elementary ...
Fox News

Cursive writing in American schools: Here's where this 'dying art' is still taught and why it matters

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...
Post-Bulletin

Cursive’s comeback is good for students

Dear teacher, thank you for teaching me how to write in cursive. Yes, you read that correctly: One of the oldest human technologies — handwriting — is mounting a comeback. Once a fixture in American ...
WVXU

What students lost since cursive writing was cut from the Common Core standards

: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly states that the U.S. government removed cursive from “Common Core” standards. In fact, the common core standards are set by a group of governors ...