Kids Should Learn Cursive (and Math Facts, and Word Roots), writes Annie Murphy Paul in Time. New research supports the effectiveness of “old school” methods such as “memorizing math facts, reading aloud, practicing handwriting, and teaching argumentation,” she writes.That's not progressive, that's looking backwards.
Suzanne Kail, an English teacher at an Ohio high school was required to teach Latin and Greek word roots, she writes in English Journal, though she abhorred “rote memorization.”
I cannot support requiring black and brown-skinned students to memorize partial words from old dead white people from Greece and Italy. This is what is meant by "institutional" racism.
Update, 11/15/12: It was all a joke, I didn't really turn liberal :-)