The following article is a must-read for anybody who thinks handwriting is not important. It discusses the problems we face when we no longer teach cursive handwriting to our children.
The Handwriting Is on the Wall: Researchers See a Downside as Keyboards Replace Pens in Schools, By Margaret Webb Pressler, Washington Post Staff Writer, Wednesday, October 11, 2006; Page A01
The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it’s threatening to finish off longhand.
When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2006, just 15 percent of the almost 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive. The rest? They printed. Block letters….
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