This style of writing is known as cursive writing. For Sherry East, a Biology teacher at Rock Hill High School, its something she said she was taught as a kid in elementary school.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...

Starting this year, students in third, fourth and fifth grades will learn how to read and write in cursive as part of their ...

KELLER: They're actually writing jokes in cursive, so they're practicing it in something that's of high interest to all of them. INSKEEP: California's new handwriting law takes effect in January ...

DUNMORE, Pa. — On the schedule for second graders at Dunmore Elementary Center is a lesson in cursive handwriting. Danielle Pensack is the curriculum coordinator for the Dunmore School District ...

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” she said.

“Writing in cursive has multiple benefits, including better brain development, retention, and learning in children,” Quirk-Silva, a Democrat from Fullerton, wrote.

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law.