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Friday, April 5, 2013

State Board of Education Votes to Add Cursive to Standards

The State Board of Education voted today to add handwriting and cursive to Utah's Core Standards. The Board will give the proposal time to receive public input before taking a final vote on it.

 This is an excellent decision by the State Board. 
The ability to write cursive, and especially to read it, are important parts of a thorough education. These skills allow a person to participate in family history and other archival research, read facsimiles of source documents from the American founding and other historic documents, and participate in the civilzed art of the hand-written thank you note or personal letter (something which all of us could probably make time to do more often!)

 It's unfortunate that the Common Core standards don't include handwriting and cursive. Kudos to the State Board for voting to move ahead with adding these skills to the standards for Utah's schoolchildren.

 Further Information:
Utah School Board gives approval to keep cursive in schools

 What You Can Do:
Contact the members of the State School Board and tell them "Thank You!" 
http://www.schools.utah.gov/board/Board-Members/Find-Your-Board-Member.aspx
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  1. Stephanie MorganJuly 25, 2013 at 8:50 AM

    After I read your article I asked my 14 year old if he knows cursive, I thought they had covered it when he was in elementary, and he said NO! I was shocked. He said that they did do it in third grade, briefly, but that he had completely forgotten and he was never required to use it so he doesn't know how now. I felt like a terrible mother that I hadn't known and that I hadn't taught him. So here I have my son going into highschool not knowing cursive. SHOCKING!

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