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In France, the time-honored tradition of the dictee — or dictation — is alive and well. Recently, 1,700 desks were set up on the Champs Elysees in Paris for the world's largest dictee session.

Computers have replaced pen and paper in most U.S schools, but French kids are still taught to write in cursive. In an old-school pillar of French education, the dictee, or dictation, thrives. NPR's ...