This article discusses the importance of implementing cursive into the education system. Around two dozen states require schools to teach cursive by law, but the style of cursive is not standardized, so this requirement has not been enforced or funded. The article also explains how this cursive program is meant to steer students away from screens and encourage them to learn to write by hand, which has shown to improve language development in young children.
This article discusses a study that was conducted to discover the extent to which dogs are able to understand language. The data concluded that dogs are able to associate certain frequently-used words with the correct object (such as "ball"), but researchers are not sure if this means dogs are able to identify specifically their own ball or an object that is ball-shaped in general.