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In 2016, California Democratic state Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva sat with then-California Gov. Jerry Brown at an event where he signed baseball-type cards featuring the image of his dog, Colusa. But many of the recipients of the cards couldn’t read his cursive signature, Quirk-Silva recalled, much to the Democratic governor’s dismay. “The governor asked me what […]
To certain younger Americans, cursive writing is nothing more than an inscrutable collection of loops and squiggles. A growing number of states are trying to change that.
Invite him here. >> he'll jog over and help himself. this is "the boston globe." fighting to save cursive from the common core. we talk about these in the presidential race but here's one thing about them. they do not include any requirements for handwriting instructions. education experts questioning whether students need to be taught two entirely different styles of handwriting. now a movement to install cursive writing is some kind of requirement. i remember learning cursive. i don't know how you would describe my actual handwriting now. it's an indecipherable scrawl. but do we need to teac...
Circumstances where it is wonderful to be able to write a personal, legible note in cursive, and somebody who can't do that i think is at a disadvantage. >> okay. you have a recent blog in which you wrote in the "atlantic" that you said cursive handwriting is good teaching and good neuroscience. how so? >> the students of the brain have found that the development of the hand and the development of the brain really go together. and so when people are learning to write and when they're learning cursive and they're writing things out in cursive, they're really learning things in many cases more d...