Amid growing attention to artificial intelligence in public education, more teachers are revisiting historically human abilities – such as cursive writing.
In one recent example, Pennsylvania has brought back cursive as a required subject for private and public schools in a bill passed this February, set to take effect this month.
“Pennsylvania and many other states ditched cursive writing as a mandatory subject in the early 2010s when they adopted Common Core education standards, which focused more on keyboard skills,” Axios Pittsburgh wrote.
However, many teachers described their “longing to go back to a time when things were a little simpler,” according to the news article.
“Spending valuable class time teaching students to put pen to paper is a nationwide trend, despite students using computers for a growing share of assignments.”
