COMPTON, Calif.—In a classroom at Anderson Elementary on a recent Thursday, third-graders lined up to have their pencils sharpened to a crisp point before beginning a cursive lesson. The ...

Those old ladies can write. If you want to improve your cursive, or learn it from scratch, there are really two main skills to work on: Knowing how each letter is formed and what it should end up ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

And even some elementary school teachers confess they don’t know how to write in cursive. This might sound like the handwriting apocalypse doomsayers have warned of for generations. But it’s ...