What's interesting about this article is the chart that accompanies it depicting the alphabet and numbers as written in cursive. Take a look at it. Now ask, why did we develop cursive writing when we had printed text as a perfectly good system of hand-printed text already in existence? It has to do with the quill pen and ink, and specifically, the fact that cursive allows you to write text without lifting your pen off the page, thus preventing drips and smudges. It was a shortcut. Anyhow, if we look at that chart, we can see that this original purpose has been lost, as many of the lowercase letters to not properly join with the letters preceding or following them. And all of that tells me that the whole idea that 'cursive writing builds x skills' is a rationalization created by people who do not understand why cursive exists (and why it is no longer necessary).
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