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Red Meat Friday: Cursive’s Last Stand

It’s been a while since I’ve ventured into the emotional minefield that is cursive handwriting. Here’s a couple of tweets from Paul Graham that make two very good points: They should start by at least not making kids learn the … Continue reading

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Is Cursive Virtuous?

Irreal has a large corpus on the problems with cursive handwriting (see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) but I haven’t written about it for a while. I was going through my queue of unpublished blog ideas and … Continue reading

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The Guardian on Cursive

Since we’re talking about cursive, let’s take a look at what the Guardian has to say. They report that in Britain and the United States handwriting of all types—printing as well as cursive—is rapidly disappearing. Of course, we all write … Continue reading

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Vox on Cursive

I haven’t written about cursive handwriting in a while so here’s some red meat for those, like me, who hope to see its elimination from the curriculum. Vox.com posted an article with the provocative title Cursive handwriting is useless, but … Continue reading

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The Fate of Cursive in Florida

As long time readers know, I have a continuing interest in the state of cursive handwriting. See here, here, here, here, and here for some of my thoughts on the matter. One of the continuing threads in those posts is … Continue reading

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More News From the Cursive Front

Yahoo News has an interesting article on the cursive wars. Should cursive handwriting be abandoned as an anachronism or should it be preserved as an important life skill? Regular Irreal readers already know where I stand on the matter but … Continue reading

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Further Evidence for the Demise of Cursive

I’ve written a couple of times about the demise of cursive handwriting. Its proponents’ arguments have pretty much been reduced to (1) it is the apotheosis of all that is good and holy in written communication and (2) if we … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Ties

This is barely Red Meat Friday material because almost everyone here will agree with it and find it noncontroversial. Nonetheless, the minions assure me that there are plenty of suits in our industry who will object strenuously. The issue is … Continue reading

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Ball Point Pens

What could you buy for the price of a ball point pen? No much. Not a newspaper, not a cup of coffee, and certainly not a hamburger. You can get one of the ubiquitous Bic pens for a little over … Continue reading

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High School Students and Basic Computer Skills

Chris Wellons over at Null Program has an interesting post on High School students and how they lack a couple of basic computer skills that hamper their advancement in the subject. Wellons mentors students so he’s seen these problems first … Continue reading

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