"New Jersey has now become the latest US state to bring penmanship back into the classroom, requiring schools to teach cursive to children in grades 3 to 5 (roughly ages 8 to 11)."
"It joins about two dozen states that in the past decade have introduced similar rules (in some other countries, such as France and Brazil, schools never stopped teaching cursive)."
"When former New Jersey governor Phil Murphy signed the bill last week, during his last days in office, he said that learning cursive could offer cognitive benefits for students."
Many schools are reintroducing cursive penmanship; New Jersey now requires cursive instruction for grades 3–5, joining about two dozen US states and some countries where cursive never lapsed. Former governor Phil Murphy cited potential cognitive benefits of learning cursive. Research indicates that producing letters by hand stimulates and challenges the brain more than typing, though evidence that cursive offers specific advantages over separate-letter print is limited. Developmental neuroscientists study how fine motor skill development and pen-based letter production affect learning, using interventions and fMRI to compare neural engagement after pen versus keyboard training.
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