TRENTON, N.J. – There’s a growing national movement to get America’s kids writing in cursive again after years of the lost art of penmanship disappearing from public school curricula.
New Jersey is no exception, and Democrat Assemblywoman Angela McKnight is reportedly sponsoring legislation (A-6010) which would require Garden State schools to teach students how to read and write in cursive by the time they reach the fourth grade.
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Assemblymen Ron Dancer and Sean Kean, both Republicans, had pushed practically identical legislation in recent years but without success.
Common Core killed cursive back in 2010 and consequently many schools followed suit and stopped teaching it. Advocates of bringing it back say children’s motor and literacy skills benefit from writing and reading in cursive.
This latest pro-cursive measure needs to clear the Assembly Education Committee for a chance at becoming law.
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