Comments on: The Curse of Handwriting https://booksquare.com/the-curse-of-handwriting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=the-curse-of-handwriting Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:59:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Booksquare https://booksquare.com/the-curse-of-handwriting/#comment-118743 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:59:52 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/03/14/1857/#comment-118743 Just wait, next week, there’s a huge ole announcement about New Math.

I paid extra attention to my longhand today. I seem to do the italics thing naturally. Still illegible, but you can’t have it all.

]]> By: Brenda Coulter https://booksquare.com/the-curse-of-handwriting/#comment-118738 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:04:05 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/03/14/1857/#comment-118738 It never fails to amuse me, the way the educational establishment trots out these “revolutionary” theories, allows them to quietly expire, and then reintroduces them years later as brand-new ideas. Case in point: I was first made aware of the italics “movement” way back in 1989, when my elder son was in the first grade. His teachers were excited about the new handwriting instruction method, but two years later my son changed schools and had to learn cursive writing. And I haven’t heard another word about the italics method until just now.

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