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Posted on 03/19/2026 9:24:14 AM PDT by algore
Cursive has been on the upswing for years now. More than two dozen states now require cursive instruction in schools after the 2010 Common Core standards omitted the skill.
Kenerson, a multilingual teacher at Holmes, started the middle school cursive club when students couldn't read her writing on the board. They just stared at her blankly, she said.
"I realized they didn't know how to write or read in cursive," Kenerson said. For an educator who firmly believes that quotes deserve to be written in cursive, and has a new one on her board each month, Kenerson wanted to give students a chance to understand the magic of the loopy writing.
Kenerson's after-school club is a local example of a nationwide trend — cursive handwriting is back in many classrooms across the country. Teachers and legislators credit the resurgence to nostalgia and some evidence of educational benefits. But surprisingly, the curves and swoops are contentious among experts, and some argue that cursive does not add any real value for students
Much of the cursive debate centers around time in the classroom. Should educators spend precious minutes teaching another way to write on paper when technology is so prevalent?
"I have seen no evidence that cursive brings any particular cognitive or learning benefit beyond that brought by hand printing," wrote Mark Warschauer, a professor of education at the University of California, Irvine
Warschauer, who founded the UC Irvine Digital Learning Lab, opposes teaching cursive in schools because of the "waste of time and effort" when print handwriting, voice-to-text applications, and keyboards are easily accessible to students.
Back in Kenerson's cursive club, 11-year-old Conrad Thompson said she's the only student in her history class who can read her teacher's huge Declaration of Independence printout. It makes her proud.
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They have to in order to sign their welfare checks.
Son knows cursive and knows how to drive a four speed :-)
“I have seen no evidence that cursive brings any particular cognitive or learning benefit beyond that brought by hand printing,” wrote Mark Warschauer, a professor of education at the University of California, Irvine”
Typical egghead liberal response.
How about DICIPLINE dipsht?
Common Core. Another reason to hate the Bushes.
Yes. Because "technology" is ephemeral; pen and paper are durable.
Exactly.
Yes, students should be taught cursive.
The rest of the 'cursive' keyword, sorted:
We need cursive like we need wingtips.
The answer is yes.
Yes they should. Warning: It’s a long article. Which I admit to just browsing through,
“The Importance of Cursive Handwriting Over Typewriting for Learning in the Classroom: A High-Density EEG Study of 12-Year-Old Children and Young Adults”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7399101/
As well as, “https://www.americanexperiment.org/is-handwriting-the-key-for-cognitive-development/“
He must have missed multiple studies showing otherwise.
It's unbelievable to me.
I have had students who cannot sign their applications for National Honor Society.
But probably in the next paragraph this “educrat” would defend it as teaching an “ART” if it was called the “Basics\Foundations of Calligraphy”.
Cursive should be taught and practiced in grades 1-6 as much as for training brain-eye-hand coordination. Call it PE then if you don’t want to call it literacy.
"We need more cursive."
Of course, the founding documents are written in cursive
In addition to that, it introduces a little a little grace and beauty into our largely utilitarian lives. Good handwriting is elegant, and if you are, for example, writing a card or personal note to someone it lends a little more beauty and thoughtfulness to the effort.
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