Dyanne Wheat's List: Literacy

• • article from Steve Massiah
• Typing doesn't help the brain develop as much as writing in longhand, a tactile means of expression with roots in scratching on cave walls, argues handwriting analyst Michelle Dresbold. With typing, the fingers make repetitive movements rather than connect shapes, she said.
• nage legislative pages may have helped push the bill through, Ms. Leising says. Most were printed or they were a scrawled combination of block and cursive letters, and some students were so used to texting "thx" that they struggled to spell "thank you," she said.
• It is becoming increasingly rare to even have to sign your name.

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