- Pennsylvania is expected to teach cursive script in elementary school tasks. The bill overwhelmingly passed the state legislature and now moves to the Senate. If it passes and is signed into law, Pennsylvania will be 25Th Command authorization.
Today’s students can write a short story with their thumb in just a few minutes, thanks to their smartphone obsession, but can they write with smooth scripts?
Pennsylvania is taking steps to ensure they can work with the state capitol Most of the past A bill earlier this week requires all students in private and public primary schools Learn cursive script. Voting was 195-8. The bill now moves to the state Senate.
“In our digital world, cursive script is in trouble, but students have many reasons to have a basic understanding of cursive writing,” said Rep. Dann Watt (R), who sponsored the bill.
Cursive script has been out of the way for 15 years after the school began adopting a universal core curriculum, which gradually emphasizes the writing style. Pennsylvania is the latest state to make it the early education process again. Two states have done this before.
It’s not just a desire to keep style. Research from the University of California, Riverside shows that cursive writing can enhance brain development, especially in areas related to language, memory, and fine motor skills. “When students participate in the complex movements required for cursive writing” The school wrote“This activates different parts of the brain compared to typing or printing.”
(California asked for cursive writing education in schools last year.)
There is also an argument that since the author is a smooth, uninterrupted process, it is possible to better preserve and understand notes in cursive scripts.
Watro, Pennsylvania, points out another advantage of learning to read and write turf: understanding history. Documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were originally written in cursive form.
