“Part of being an American is being able to read cursive writing,” Ms. Roach told King 5 News. Andrew Brenner told the local news media in Ohio in December, when he was a state representative, that he had co-sponsored a bill requiring cursive instruction because studies show benefits for brain development and hand dexterity. Lawmakers in Louisiana supported an even broader measure, in part, because Magna Carta and the United States Constitution were written in cursive. Cursive was also politicized during the Cold War, becoming a display of patriotism. “Unbelievably, there were arguments that the fact that American kids couldn’t do cursive made us vulnerable to the Russian menace,” Dr. Thornton said.

Source: New York Times April 13, 2019 13:48 UTC