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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cursive is dead, seriously. Schools teach it for a couple weeks in third grade and then kids never use it again. By the time you get to serious work in middle and high school, it's all on computers.[/quote]

WRONG!!  There is significant evidence that when schools stopped teaching cursive in grade school, kids brains failed to make some very key connections and damaged their ability to learn in later years. Privates, the best ones at least, all started teaching cursive again in the past decade. Both my kids had it. The standard is Cursive without Tears or something like that (it’s been a few years for my kids). [/quote]

Here you go -there are many more examples but start here:

Learning to write in cursive is shown to improve brain development in the areas of thinking, language and working memory. Cursive handwriting stimulates brain synapses and synchronicity between the left and right hemispheres, something absent from printing and 
- https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/04/30/should-schools-require-children-to-learn-cursive/the-benefits-of-cursive-go-beyond-writing

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Research shows that learning to write in cursive offers brain benefits to kids that they don't get from printing letters or keyboarding. An article from Psychology Today states that learning to write in cursive is an important tool for cognitive development. Specifically, cursive writing trains the brain to learn functional specialization, which is the capacity for optimal efficiency. When a child learns to read and write in cursive through consistent practice and repetition, he or she must effectively integrate fine motor skills with visual and tactile processing abilities. This multi-sensory experience supports cognitive function and development.
-  https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704631504575531932754922518

Further, brain imaging studies reveal that multiple areas of brain become co-activated during learning of cursive writing of pseudo-letters, as opposed to typing or just visual practice. There is spill-over benefit for thinking skills used in reading and writing.  Colleges began to see the effects on kids who weren’t taught cursive in the 1990s and studies were launched. Turns out learning cursive is extremely important to higher brain functionality.

Oh and the most widely used instruction method is “Handwriting without Tears”. Most good privates use it.

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