Cursive In Schools Debate

July 03, 2020

How common core brought attention to the math. By 2015 only 12 states required students to learn cursive also know as script.

Cursive Debate Underlines Different Views On Practice Education

After the test i asked him if he learned to write in cursive in elementary school.

Cursive in schools debate. Why the debate over cursive is about more than penmanship. Sound like a familiar debate at your school. As more states including north carolina pass laws to teach cursive in schools the debate around this traditional.

Though many schools stopped teaching cursive over the years it s making a comeback. Starting this year in texas elementary school students will be taught the flowing form of handwriting also known as script. Reading writing math.

Mandated by nc law school cursive lessons stir debate. The oxford comma debate has been settled as least in one court of law. As of 2016 14 states required cursive instruction.

Cursive writing used to be taught in just about every public school in the united states. But cursive is making a comeback. As children millennials were taught how to write in cursive in grade school.

And in the fall of 2016 the nation s largest public school district new york city schools began encouraging cursive writing instruction in the curriculum. Common core standards removed cursive instruction as a requirement which means that in 41 states teachers aren t obligated to teach it so many of them don t. Some teachers believe that cursive is archaic and that students should be prepared for contemporary communication.

This coincided nicely with the introduction of the personal computer and the importance of typing skills. However most states that don t mandate cursive in the curriculum still allow schools and districts to teach it if they desire. The great cursive debate.

Susana cordova chief academic officer denver public schools told the denver post. By the time they re in fourth grade kids will be required to complete some assignments in cursive. But as typing on computers and smartphones became more common many schools stopped teaching cursive.

But another debate rages on in the halls of academia and the forums of word nerds. You can teach cursive in schools but only to the point in where people can learn to sign their own name. Then as these students progressed from elementary to middle school cursive became less important and typed documents were the standard.

Cursive was originally intended to speed up writing possesses but instead it is having the opposite effect on it. Colorado schools are also engaged in a similar debate. The controversy is that if not required will schools manage to fit the subject in with all of the other lessons taught.

Printing has both circular and lines in it while cursive only has circular structures. Cursive is useless in today s day and age. Cursive writing may be making a comeback at least in some states.

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