{"id":8745,"date":"2019-05-15T10:29:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T14:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=8745"},"modified":"2019-05-15T17:01:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T21:01:25","slug":"how-many-students-in-elementary-school-write-in-cursive-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/05\/15\/how-many-students-in-elementary-school-write-in-cursive-today\/","title":{"rendered":"How many students in elementary school write in cursive today?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aw051519-1.jpg\" alt=\"How many students in elementary school write in cursive today?\" class=\"wp-image-8741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aw051519-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aw051519-1-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>How many students in elementary school write in cursive today?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Massachusetts, current standards for grades 4 and 5 include only writing the student&#8217;s given name and surname in cursive. Nationwide, many schools have let go of cursive in order to teach other subjects with higher priorities, though since 2010 (with a low of 10 states requiring cursive in some form) some states, especially in the South, have begun to require it again. The total as of last month was 18 states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Massachusetts, current standards for grades 4 and 5 include only writing the student&#8217;s given name and surname in cursive. Nationwide, many schools have let go of cursive in order to teach other subjects with higher priorities, though since 2010 (with a low of 10 states requiring cursive in some form) some states, especially in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/05\/15\/how-many-students-in-elementary-school-write-in-cursive-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How many students in elementary school write in cursive today?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[649],"class_list":["post-8745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-cursive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8759,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions\/8759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}