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NJ flips script — mandates teaching cursive writing in schools starting next fall

Print is dead. New Jersey is flipping the script and ordering its public schools to bring back cursive writing starting next fall. In one of his final acts as governor, Phil Murphy on Monday signed legislation requiring students in third through fifth grades to learn cursive,

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Cursive handwriting is back from the dead. NJ schools now must teach it in grades 3-5

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Cursive Writing Is Becoming Mandatory in New Jersey Public Schools. Here’s When the New Law Goes into Effect

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Cursive writing classes made mandatory for New Jersey students grades 3-5

New Jersey public school students in the third, fourth and fifth grades will be taught cursive writing.

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WA bill could require cursive writing in schools

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New Jersey law will require cursive handwriting to be taught in schools

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

OPINION: Has cursive writing outlived its usefulness? Maybe

The year my daughter was born, cursive was axed from the national Common Core standards for K-12 education. For those of us in older generations, writing and reading cursive was a basic skill taught by schools. But, in this digital age, it’s a lost skill ...

TribLIVE.com

Cursive handwriting makes a comeback in elementary schools

“I like how my pencil feels on the paper when I write it,” Evi said from her classroom at Mary Queen of Apostles in New Kensington. “It’s very loopy.” Evi and her classmates are learning the art of cursive writing, the old-school style of writing ...

Yahoo

Gen Z never learned cursive. The effects of this are more widespread than you think

Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members of Gen Z have never been taught how to read or write cursive, The Atlantic reported. According to The Washington Post, even though ...

phillyvoice.com

Cursive writing could become a requirement for students in Pa.

Even in a world where computers and online learning have become paramount in education, Pennsylvania lawmakers could be adding an old-fashioned wrinkle to student development: cursive handwriting. "In an increasingly digital world, cursive has fallen by ...

Philadelphia Mag

Philly Kids May Soon Be Forced to Learn Cursive

I live in West Philadelphia, and my kids, who are 17 and 19, have some beautiful cursive handwriting, a skill they picked up, along with Latin and the ability to sit up straight at a desk for 60 minutes without talking or flinching, at the Catholic school ...

Cleveland.com

To cursive, or not to cursive. That is the question: Editorial Board Roundtable

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for handwriting and cursive. It continues to emphasize, “The ...

KMBC Kansas City

Kansas surveys districts about cursive handwriting

The Kansas Department of Education is asking school districts how extensively they're teaching cursive handwriting. Results of a survey will be presented to the state Board of Education at a meeting this week in Topeka. Schools around the country ...