My stumbling block: cursive writing ... Straighten those arches on Ms and Ns, and don’t forget the little left arm on capital “I.” She was kind and supportive to most of my classmates.

The cursive capital G, for instance ... But just as those aren’t enough to impose learning Roman numerals on all schoolchildren, cursive’s time is up, now that all people will spend so ...

Kieffer said capital T is her biggest challenger ... children after they graduate that the students can read and write in cursive," Sister Xavier said. Kieffer and Miller find personal benefits ...

Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s or earlier and chances are they will have a memory of trying to get that capital ... kids won’t, at least for now. Where cursive came from ...

After watching her teacher trace the downward and upward curves of a capital C on the chalkboard ... “It wouldn’t do any harm to teach cursive, but if you measure that versus the ability ...

What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and ...

“I can usually tell that it’s English by the uppercase letters,” said Barnes ... by the number of his students that can’t read cursive by the time they reach college.

but because he didn’t know how to write in cursive. “I’m paying all these school taxes and he can’t even sign his name?” the father said. The son wasn’t alone. New York is one of 29 ...

“You just pick a record that hasn't been done and read the instructions. It's easy to do for a half hour a day or a week.” While being able to read cursive isn't a requirement, it does help ...