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Is Handwriting a Lost Art? What One College’s Kerfuffle Over Cursive Can Tell Us
Researchers say that handwriting is linked to academic success. Historians, like Morris, worry what is lost if people can’t ...
Children’s handwriting is dying. Here is the proof
Children’s handwriting is now so bad that teenagers need lessons in secondary school, experts have warned. Handwriting is ...
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The Number of States That Require Schools to Teach Cursive Is Growing
The gap in cursive education has been a source of debate in state legislatures across the country in recent years, with some researchers and historians advocating for its return. Researchers say that ...
How the death of cursive is complicating our elections
The legibility of cursive signatures on mail-in ballot envelopes could well become a disenfranchisement problem.
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Why handwriting still matters in the digital age
(What ever happened to cursive writing?) “We think that our results can be partly explained by how handwriting activates different pathways to the same concept,” says Robert Wiley, a professor ...
Face Off: Should schools continue to teach penmanship in the digital age?
Each week, two readers discuss a hot topic in a parliamentary-style debate that doesn’t necessarily reflect their personal ...