English cursive in the US[edit]
D'Nealian Script, a cursive alphabet — lower case and upper case.
On the 2006 SAT, a United States post-secondary education entrance exam, only 15 percent of the students wrote their essay answers in cursive.[7]
In a 2007 survey of 200 teachers of first through third grades in all 50 American states, 90 percent of respondents said their schools required the teaching of cursive.[8]
A 2008 nationwide survey found elementary school teachers lacking formal training in teaching handwriting to students. Only 12 percent of teachers reported having taken a course in how to teach it.[9]
In 2012, the American states of Indiana and Hawaii announced that their schools will no longer be required to teach cursive (but will still be permitted to), and instead will be required to teach "keyboard proficiency". As of 2011 the same was true of Illinois. Since the nation-wide proposal of the Common Core State Standards in 2009, which do not include instruction in cursive, the standards have been adopted by 44 states as of July 2011, all of which have debated whether to augment them with cursive.[10][11]
California, Georgia, and Massachusetts have added a cursive requirement to the national standards.[12]
I ask my nephews if they could write in cursive the other day. Both boys are in college here in Cookeville, Tn. They said they could write their name in cursive, but would have trouble remembering other letters if they had to write a paper in long hand..............amazing,,,,so if you can write in cursive, you are an antique person.
D'Nealian Script, a cursive alphabet — lower case and upper case.
On the 2006 SAT, a United States post-secondary education entrance exam, only 15 percent of the students wrote their essay answers in cursive.[7]
In a 2007 survey of 200 teachers of first through third grades in all 50 American states, 90 percent of respondents said their schools required the teaching of cursive.[8]
A 2008 nationwide survey found elementary school teachers lacking formal training in teaching handwriting to students. Only 12 percent of teachers reported having taken a course in how to teach it.[9]
In 2012, the American states of Indiana and Hawaii announced that their schools will no longer be required to teach cursive (but will still be permitted to), and instead will be required to teach "keyboard proficiency". As of 2011 the same was true of Illinois. Since the nation-wide proposal of the Common Core State Standards in 2009, which do not include instruction in cursive, the standards have been adopted by 44 states as of July 2011, all of which have debated whether to augment them with cursive.[10][11]
California, Georgia, and Massachusetts have added a cursive requirement to the national standards.[12]
I ask my nephews if they could write in cursive the other day. Both boys are in college here in Cookeville, Tn. They said they could write their name in cursive, but would have trouble remembering other letters if they had to write a paper in long hand..............amazing,,,,so if you can write in cursive, you are an antique person.
