“Modern research indicates that more areas of the human brain are engaged when children use cursive handwriting than when they keyboard,” Idaho state Rep. Linden Bateman told the Associated Press. “It’s beyond belief to me that states have allowed cursive to slip from the standards.”
Keith Wagstaff, a writer for The Week, thinks schools should insert simple computer programming classes into the curriculum where cursive handwriting instruction once was.
He writes:
“An hour spent teaching cursive is an hour spent not teaching something that will actually be relevant to children’s lives — like computer education, a subject that is severely underserved in today’s schools. Think about an eight-year-old’s future: What is his or her future boss going to be more impressed by, the ability to write cursive or to code?”
But at least a handful of states are trying to keep cursive handwriting as part of early childhood instruction. Seven states — California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Utah — have now filed legislation to implement penmanship into the curriculum for good.
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