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

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New Jersey will now require cursive writing for some elementary school students

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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

New Jersey 101.5

New Jersey schools to revive cursive writing for young students

Starting next school year, New Jersey elementary students will once again learn cursive writing, a move inspired by research showing its benefits.

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New Jersey students to learn cursive in school under new law

Students in New Jersey will soon learn cursive again, thanks to a new state law signed by the governor. Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday that requires school districts to teach cursive in third through fifth grades.

Daily Breeze

Should school kids still learn cursive writing? Question of the week

How badly does 15 minutes a day for one third-grade semester impact other subjects? Not much. Why all the controversy? My third-graders loved to practice handwriting because I always wrote short, funny poems and silly sayings on the board for them to copy.

The Denver Post

Students have better things to learn than cursive writing (editorial)

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Like 32-volume encyclopedias or cassette tapes, cursive writing has become a casualty of technology. Why learn how to draw that funny-looking crooked triple loop when you can just tap the shift key and the letter ...

Today

Learning cursive writing: Is it worthwhile or a waste of time?

Last week, elementary school students returned to the classroom in Archdale, N.C., with a new subject on the mandatory agenda: cursive writing. It’s a debate that has been simmering among experts, parents and teachers all summer, with some arguing that ...

Seattle Times

Should students learn cursive? Some states say yes

The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years gone by, it helped distinguish the literate from the illiterate.

Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: If kids must learn cursive, old folks should learn to use smartphones

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, long scorned as obsolete, is now the law in ...

Psychology Today

Biological and Psychology Benefits of Learning Cursive

In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 states, no longer require the teaching of cursive.