[etni] Fw: A Timely Article
- From: "Ask_Etni" <ask@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "ETNI" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:07:38 +0200
Hi all,
The following article from The Boston Globe is a must read for those of you
who have joined in on the "cursive writing" debate.
Our thanks to Margie Cohen for bringing this article to our attention.
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Cursive, foiled again
The Boston Globe - January 19, 2009
"The moving finger writes," says the famous Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, "and,
having writ, moves on." Nowadays, the finger more likely is hammering away
on a computer keyboard, texting on a cellphone, or Twittering on a
BlackBerry.
If you predate the computer age, you might remember a school subject called
"penmanship," which trained your cursive handwriting, usually by the Palmer
Method. The penmanship teacher would come by once a week to rate your work,
and if your handwriting was bad, you'd hear about it. It's still taught, to
be sure, but it's no longer emphasized. "There's been a decline in attention
to all kinds of basic skills," said Louise Spear-Swerling, coordinator of
the graduate program in learning disabilities at Southern Connecticut State
University. "With handwriting, people think it's just not that important."
Some people are concerned, though, and one is Kitty Burns Florey, whose book
"Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting" comes out Friday -
John Hancock's birthday and National Handwriting Day. Florey, author of nine
novels and a book about sentence diagramming, became interested in the
subject after reading that computer keyboarding has displaced handwriting in
schools.
(To read the whole article, go to -
http://www.etni.org/news/cursive.htm )
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