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Anyone know what research the minister is referencing? The academic later quoted said there wasn't much research. I also wonder what was the basis for dropping cursive... The article appears to be just a bunch of cheering with little substance or context.
Personally I just dislike cursive and always have. Other people's cursive writing is a pain in the he ass to read much of the time. The speed benefit is crushed by legibility issues. Doing a lot of genealogy research for example really underscores this, when most documents were hand written in cursive. .Yeah, great I can read cursive, but it is so often tedious and painful to decipher. There is a reason many forms came to say "print clearly". Just my opinion and experience.
Not a super big deal either way, but so far I'm glad my kids didn't have to bother with cursive. Artist, musician and computer programmer. Bilingual. Cursive-free!
It's Lecce. Don't expect anything resembling reality outta that guy.
As for cursive itself the only positives I've seen mentioned in research and in anecdotal conversations is that physically writing information down helps with memory retention as opposed to typing it out on a keyboard. Although I'd imagine the same could be said about simply printing it out by hand.
It'll be interesting to see what style they introduce in this new curriculum. Looking at examples online my style fits mostly with the Zaner-Bloser method.