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By Alex Frost - Readers Digest - 24 Jan 2020
"A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why.
Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s or earlier and chances are they will have a memory of trying to get that capital G loopy enough or have a favorite letter to swoop and scrawl. Then a generation of Americans skipped this rite of passage as teaching cursive writing was phased out of the curriculum, making it one of 9 school subjects that you took that your kids won’t, at least for now.
Where cursive came from: A brief history
The concept of cursive dates all the way back to the 5th century when the ancient Romans developed something that “flowed like modern cursive,” according to History.com. Centuries later it became expected that men and women use different handwriting from each other, as well as people from different classes. Various professions had their own signature style of handwriting as well.
Two methods prevailed in America. In the 19th century, it was the Spencerian method (the original Coca Cola logo is an example) and then the D’Nealian script starting in the 1970s.
The decline of handwriting began in the 1980s as computers and their associated keyboards became commonplace and learning to type took precedence over beautiful handwriting.
Where did all of the cursive go?
A decade ago, during the surge of Common Core State Standards’ popularity, cursive writing took a backseat and was eliminated from most curricula across the United States.
(Common Core is a set of educational standards established by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in 2009. They are followed by 41 states.)
“The Common Core standards seemed to spell the end of the writing style in 2010 when they dropped requirements that the skill be taught in public elementary schools,” reported a 2019 article in the New York Times. Common Core demands a sufficient grasp of keyboarding skills by the fourth grade and doesn’t have any specific cursive writing requirements; this initiated the shift away from cursive. [...]
Read More: Should schools bring back cursive handwriting?
"The art of writing [cursive] is the art of discovering what you believe". Gustave Flaubert
PS I've also found that by using a FP, my writing has improved (well my cursive is still a little better than
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By Alex Frost - Readers Digest - 24 Jan 2020
Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s or earlier and chances are they will have a memory of trying to get that capital G loopy enough or have a favorite letter to swoop and scrawl. Then a generation of Americans skipped this rite of passage as teaching cursive writing was phased out of the curriculum, making it one of 9 school subjects that you took that your kids won’t, at least for now.
Where cursive came from: A brief history
The concept of cursive dates all the way back to the 5th century when the ancient Romans developed something that “flowed like modern cursive,” according to History.com. Centuries later it became expected that men and women use different handwriting from each other, as well as people from different classes. Various professions had their own signature style of handwriting as well.
Two methods prevailed in America. In the 19th century, it was the Spencerian method (the original Coca Cola logo is an example) and then the D’Nealian script starting in the 1970s.
The decline of handwriting began in the 1980s as computers and their associated keyboards became commonplace and learning to type took precedence over beautiful handwriting.
Where did all of the cursive go?
A decade ago, during the surge of Common Core State Standards’ popularity, cursive writing took a backseat and was eliminated from most curricula across the United States.
(Common Core is a set of educational standards established by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in 2009. They are followed by 41 states.)
“The Common Core standards seemed to spell the end of the writing style in 2010 when they dropped requirements that the skill be taught in public elementary schools,” reported a 2019 article in the New York Times. Common Core demands a sufficient grasp of keyboarding skills by the fourth grade and doesn’t have any specific cursive writing requirements; this initiated the shift away from cursive. [...]
Read More: Should schools bring back cursive handwriting?
PS I've also found that by using a FP, my writing has improved (well my cursive is still a little better than
