I fully believe this, which is why I’ve been muted in my criticism of the 1A issues with Harvard/Columbia - if they could just cut the cord without saying why it could save American education.
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I believe that not only cursive writing, but cursive writing with a pencil on scratchy low-quality paper helped kids learn to read and spell. That muscle effort plus the slow painstaking creation of each letter while saying the sound of the letter in your head or outloud—and then blending it into the next connected letter—how could this not be helpful?
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These tools look great—a step toward a smoother experience for everyone.
Feedback:
- I would like to see anchor links. Useful as one creates more high-effort posts and wants to link back to specific tracts. Also, and this is much bigger, a TOC feature would be great to see.
- There's a bug if an image is the first thing in a post: if there happens to be a newline above that image, it can't be removed (except by mucking about with the underlying HTML).
- As others have said, underline and strike…