The Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices in America have removed cursive from the Common Core State Standards for English. Forty-one states have adopted the non-cursive standards.
The argument for removing cursive is that writing is simply no longer important and has no core value in schools anymore. It is also no longer used at work. Computers are becoming widely used at schools and there is therefore no need to practice cursive handwriting anymore.
The argument against removing cursive from the curriculum is that penmanship is a skill on which other artistic skills can be built. A person's handwriting is unique to himself and that is why it is possible to analyse it. According to Danielle Gilbert, replacing 15 minutes of cursive handwriting lessons with a lesson in how to use a QWERTY keyboard is not going to improve academic standards.
