Cursive gets cursory treatment in schools during digital age By JESSICA BOCK/St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mar 7, 2012 Updated Mar 25, 2021 ...

The cursive bill is estimated to have a per-student cost of between $10 and $35 a year and a per-teacher cost of between $25 and $160 a year.

But why? “A lot of our younger people can’t read cursive now because they were never taught cursive,” Leising said in February after her Senate Bill 72 was signed into law by Gov. Eric Holcomb.

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s cursive requirement is worth the paper it’s written on. Julie Anderson ...

Sadly, teaching cursive writing has been optional for many states across the country for about a decade or more now, and the 2010 federal Common Core standards did not include cursive instruction.

Nabeel’s cursive is rivaled only by his typing: 40 words a minute. “If I had the choice,” he said, “I’d rather do it on the computer.” World & Nation Education Newsletter ...

I can see the pros and cons of retaining cursive writing as part of a well-rounded education. Nostalgia is right at the top of my list for requiring that it be taught. I admire “thank you” and ...