{"id":536,"date":"2015-06-23T19:48:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T00:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2015-06-23T19:48:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T00:48:59","slug":"hooray-for-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/hooray-for-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for New Zealand!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This far away land got handwriting right! Literacy has become a serious problem. The decision was to implement handwriting instruction for every child. New Zealand did something that I wish would happen here in the USA: they actually searched international research, rather than relying on the myth that looped cursive is the proper adult hand.\u00a0http:\/\/www.voxy.co.nz\/national\/handwriting-comp-aims-improve-literacy\/5\/224553<\/p>\n<p>Interesting that New Zealand focused on writing. Too often, in my opinion, the focus is on reading. As a child learns how to form a letter, that letter goes in his \u201clibrary\u201d to find in order to read it.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting too: the choice for teaching is the italic method, well known in both New Zealand and Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This far away land got handwriting right! Literacy has become a serious problem. The decision was to implement handwriting instruction for every child. New Zealand did something that I wish would happen here in the USA: they actually searched international &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/hooray-for-new-zealand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,3,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-ages","category-education","category-news","category-older-students-adults","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}