But What About Handwriting?
Leave it to USA Today to discover an issue we’ve been talking about for the last five years — how much should we focus on children’s handwriting skills in school in the light of widespread computer use. Cursive is certainly not a job skill anymore, but does that matter? What is the cultural loss of giving it up? (What the article doesn’t discuss is whether the push for improving test scores is helping to shove handwriting out of the curriculum.) Read on at http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-06-06-cursive_x.htm.