Handwriting:

Utah has been studying cursive writing during the 2012-2013 school year. A committee of classroom teachers, university faculty, and literacy specialists met to look at the relevant research and data. This committee created language for the Utah Core Standards that was presented to the State Board of Education.
 

Schools and districts may continue to teach writing as they have been doing. There has never been a restriction placed on the teaching of writing.
 

If you are interested in the research about cursive writing, the following is a list of some research and information about the role of handwriting in student learning.

Can you Imagine a World without Handwriting? 
 
 

1. Educating Students in the Computer Age to be Multilingual by Hand
2. Critical Role of Handwriting
3. Effect of Time
4. The Role of Orthographic-Motor Integration
5. Effect of Handwriting Style on Alphabet Recognition
6. Manuscript and Transition to Cursive
7. 30 Years of Writing Research
8. Want to Improve Children's Writing?
9. Handwriting Development, Compentency, and Intervention
10. Tale of 3 P's
11. The Handwriting Debate
12. Research in Writing Instruction
13. Teaching Elementary School Students to be Effective
14. Slow Handwriting of Undergratuate Students
15. Development of Handwriting Speed
16. Is Handwriting Causally realated to Learning to Write
17. Writing Legibly
18. Handwriting Remediation Computer and Traditional
19. Effects of Different types of Learning 
20. Handwriting in the 21st Century? An Education Summit (videos of six researchers presenting on handwriting)
    http://www.hw21summit.com