Florida bill reintroduced to require cursive writing instruction in schools

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A new Florida bill is trying to, once again, make cursive writing a required subject in schools. HB 127, ...
Reason

Should We Quit Teaching Cursive in a Digital Age?

Forget Marx vs. Mises. You want to get a spirited debate going, ask pretty much anyone over the age of 8: Should kids still be taught cursive writing? I posted this question to Facebook, and for the ...
Colossal

Pop-Up Letters Set the ‘Alphabet in Motion’ in Kelli Anderson’s Playful Book

Last year, Anderson launched a remarkable, five-years-in-the-making project called Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their ...
New Scientist

A West African writing system shows how letters evolve to get simpler

The symbols we use to write words evolve to become visually simpler over time, and an analysis of a writing system from West Africa shows that they can do so over just a few generations. The script ...