Handwriting fluency key to your learning skills: Study Agencies Posted
online: Monday , November 05, 2007 at 12:00:00
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Handwriting-fluency-key-to-your-learning-skills-Study/236230/
New York, November 5: Good handwriting is more than just a quaint skill -- it
is a key part of learning, a new study finds. The study to be released this
month by Vanderbilt University professor Steve Graham shows that when children
are taught to write, they are being taught how to learn and how express
themselves.
It finds that a majority of primary-school teachers believe that students with
fluent handwriting produced written assignments that were superior in quantity
and quality and resulted in higher grades, aside from being easier to read,
according to Newsweek.
The College Board recognized this in 2005 when it added a handwritten essay to
the SAT, the standardised test for US colleges admissions, an effort to reverse
the de-emphasis on handwriting and composition that may be adversely affecting
children's learning all the way through high school and beyond, Newsweek says.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Zaner-Bloser Co., which has been publishing
penmanship curriculum since 1904, recommended 45 minutes a day. By the 1980s,
it was suggesting just 15 minutes. Today the average is more like 10 minutes,
Newsweek says quoting Handwriting Without Tears, whose penmanship curriculum is
used by 5,000 school districts around United States.
"We haven't added more hours to the school day or the school year, yet we've
added more content, and something had to give," says Dennis Williams, national
product manager for handwriting.
Umesh Sharma
Washington D.C.
1-202-215-4328 [Cell]
Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)
www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used )
http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/
http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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