The cursive capital G, for instance, is a lovely thing, but really? Given that our writing system already makes kids learn the difference between H and h, B and b, G and g, E and e, and so on ...

Peterson is a particular type of cursive style in which the letter P has an antenna; the capital Q looks like a fancy number two; and the Z has a funny loop that dipped below the baseline.

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 ...

My stumbling block: cursive writing. “Messy ... and don’t forget the little left arm on capital “I.” She was kind and supportive to most of my classmates. But when she approached my ...

At home at night, she practiced her favorites: capital R, P ... In the classroom pantheon of Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, cursive was the writing. In recent decades, cursive was declared moribund ...

The following interactive tests your handwriting by challenging you to draw cursive ... lowercase letters sometimes dip below the bottom of the composition lines, while uppercase letters (and ...

A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive ... trying to get that capital G loopy enough or have a favorite letter to swoop and ...

After watching her teacher trace the downward and upward curves of a capital ... of learning cursive, including helping students better retain the information they are writing down.