News Summary

• As a keynote speaker at a writing instrument symposium several years ago, I was shunned by a group of educators who thought my stance on the positive effects of cursive handwriting on the brain was out of touch.
• The Common Core State Standards, adopted in 2010, removed the requirement for cursive but added one for keyboarding.
• More than half the U.S. states now have laws mandating, or strongly encouraging, cursive writing in public schools – up from only 14 a decade ago.