Kentucky students would be required to learn cursive writing in new standards

[TexasTowelie]

Frankfort -- For the first time, Kentucky students would be required to learn cursive writing, in a revision of academic standards released Monday by Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt for public review. Calculus standards are also new in the revised English/language arts and math standards.

“The Common Core Standards are over,” Pruitt said as he announced that the state Department of Education is moving ahead with developing a new set of standards for math and English/language arts. He outlined several steps that the public, educators and lawmakers will take in reviewing the revisions before being sent to the Kentucky Board of Education.

Senate Bill 1, the reform bill approved by the 2017 General Assembly, calls for the state education department to implement a process for reviewing all academic standards and their aligned tests beginning in the 2017-18 school year. The current schedule calls for one or two content areas to be reviewed each year and every six years after that on a rotating basis. Senate GOP leaders had touted Senate Bill 1 as repealing the Common Core standards, as they had long promised.

The state’s current English/language arts and mathematics standards have been taught in Kentucky classrooms since 2011, officials said Monday. Standards outline what students are expected to learn in each grade, not how they are taught. The curriculum or methods and materials used to teach the standards is decided by the local school district.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article150644057.html

[exboyfil]

1. So what is not being taught?

Lots of hours were wasted in getting me to mediocre at best cursive. It took me longer to take notes in cursive in high school/college so I switched to a modified print (some elements of cursive still retained).

I guess so argument could be made about cursive helping to organize thoughts. On the other hand I could think of better uses for the time. For some (maybe many) if you keep your cursive up, then you can take notes faster. That is not the case for me though. Learning it was the worst part of my elementary academic experience. I wrote a great deal (fiction stories). My parents got me a top of the line typewriter (my brother got a drum set).