Monthly Archives: December 2019

Requiring cursive writing instruction: linked letters improve spelling proficiency.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/nyregion/cursive-writing-nj.html?searchResultPosition=1

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Do babies cry in different languages?

It seems that prosody (of the language heard in the womb) can affect how a baby cries: https://parenting.nytimes.com/baby/wermke-prespeech-development-wurzburg

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Attempts to preserve Indigenous Languages in the US

“Of the 115 Indigenous language spoken in the United States, only two are healthy. Cherokee writer Rebecca Nagle writes for High Country News about the language extinction crisis the US currently faces—and the federal government’s insufficient efforts to preserve the … Continue reading

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