An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Cursive writing is making a comeback.
The pen-on-paper approach to the written word – linking letters with loops and curls – has been gradually losing its place in the American classroom for years.
Cursive was emphasized in schools through the mid-20th Century, and some older readers will remember being graded on their “penmanship.” But first the typewriter, and then the computer began to make the skill seem obsolete.
Now, with thumbs flying across the smartphone keyboard, we can “type” wherever we go. In reaction to those social changes, many of the Common Core school standards adopted by states a few years ago no longer required instruction in cursive writing.
But now the winds are changing…
