by Mitchell Nadin, The Australian
Handwriting is disappearing from classrooms in the US, with the new national curriculum dumping the pen for the computer keyboard. But Australian students will be sticking to pen and paper, with education departments around the nation yesterday saying handwriting remained an important skill for children to learn. With the increasing use of computers in daily life, the role of handwriting is under debate, with some education policymakers believing it is a redundant practice that should be phased out and students taught typing instead. About 40 states in the US have adopted the national curriculum, known as the Common Core State Standards, which dumps mandatory teaching of longhand and leaves it to schools to decide whether to teach handwriting.
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