Readers may be asking “why cursive?” Here are a few answers:
1. Cursive writing helps train the brain to integrate visual, and tactile information, and fine motor dexterity – much more so than printing.
2. Brain imaging studies show that cursive activates areas of the brain that do not participate in keyboarding.
3. Students still need to learn cursive to write a signature, to read historical documents in the PARCC Assessment exam (already adopted by 19 states) or to more efficiently write the essay portion on an SAT exam.
4. Why would we take away a mode of expression that works for some students? All forms of output should be an option: printing, writing in cursive and keyboarding.
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