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Jersey City Lawmaker's Bill Would Require NJ Students To Learn Cursive
An assemblywoman from Hudson County has introduced legislation that would require schools to teach students to read and write in cursive, the style of penmanship once taught universally but that has fallen out of favor in an age when most written communication is generated by keyboard. The bill introduced by Angela McKnight, a Jersey City Democrat, would require elementary schools to include cursive in the curriculum. Students would be expected to be proficient by the end of third grade. Cursive was dropped from state Common Core standards nearly a decade ago, but proponents cit…