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Common Core ignored evidence-based research when it excluded cursive writing instruction, thereby, increasing academic struggles among K-12 students and illiteracy rates among adults in America. “Research shows that printing letters and writing in cursive activate different parts of the brain. Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and writing in longhand generally helps students retain more information and generate more ideas. Studies have also shown that kids who learn cursive rather than simply manuscript writing score better on reading and spelling tests, perhaps because the linked-up cursive forces writers to think of words as wholes instead of parts.”* Congress needs to revise; Common Core standards, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), and Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to require explicit direct cursive writing instruction, STAT.