The Write Idea

No, I am not agreeing with this Newsweek article to score points with my students. It's high time we can cursive from the curriculum!

Penmanship was once taught for close to an hour each day; it now warrants less than 15 minutes, according to a 2007 study. Keyboarding has replaced cursive as the priority in most schools, and most kids don't use it when they have the chance: in 2006, just 15 percent of SAT takers used cursive on the written test.