by Tracy R. Walsh
Michael Brick finds that many conservatives have rallied around cursive instruction:
The defense of cursive is not a strictly partisan issue … but the balance of enthusiasm does seem to tip rightward. Intrigued by the politics of handwriting pedagogy, I called Morgan Polikoff, an education-policy expert at the University of Southern California who has prominently endorsed a shift away from cursive instruction, to ask about his hate mail. “When I get hate mail – hate e-mail – about cursive, it’s mostly from conservatives,” he told me. “The hate mail I get from liberals is that we’ve decimated the curriculum and there’s no more beauty in schooling. … The argument you get from conservatives is more ‘How are we going to be able to read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?’”
More Dish on cursive instruction here.
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