MaryElin here - The new Common Core educational standards from the National Governors Association don’t include teaching cursive writing in the curriculum. Seven states who are unhappy about that are putting it back in for their schools, but The Week argues that cursive is no longer much used or needed, and that the time should be spent instead on teaching kids computer skills, particularly how to code. It contends that most people communicate now via computers and smartphones. How do you feel about current students learning cursive writing? When is the last time you wrote or read anything in cursive?
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:02:48 +0000
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