Shane Vander Hart: This year, Louisiana elementary schools are now required to teach cursive. Louisiana joins 15 other states that require the same and their students will be better off.
Common Core Reinforced Not Teaching Cursive
Shane Vander Hart: With the Common Core State Standards our nation will graduate more students who, when it comes to cursive, are functionally illiterate.
Florida to Put Cursive Back in Their Standards
Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart said that she would be announcing changes to the Common Core in the coming months. The changes are a result of Florida Governor Rick Scott ordering public comment on the Common Core when he made the decision to pull the state out of PARCC. One change will be that the […]
Cursive Handwriting Falls Victim to the Common Core
The Washington Post reports that cursive handwriting is disappearing from public schools. The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting new national standards that don’t require such instruction, cursive could soon be eliminated from most public […]