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✍️ The Economist writes about the return of handwriting. After a nationwide American program 2010 years ago pushed cursive aside in favor of the keyboard, more than half of the states have already brought it back to schools.
Studies show that writing activates brain regions associated with learning and memory, and also helps reading, spelling, and fine motor skills. But there is far less evidence that joined-up letters are better than ordinary handwriting; the main practical advantage of cursive is speed.
There is another modern argument: a handwritten task is harder to hand off to a chatbot. Yet lesson time is limited, and some younger teachers themselves do not know cursive well. Therefore, teaching handwriting is worth doing not for pretty flourishes, but because writing makes you think.
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