Relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, cursive writing is set to return as a mandatory part of the curriculum starting in September.

It evolves naturally, with support, from children’s initial style of print in grades 2 to 3. Once young students have internalized stable, mental models of letter shapes, they can generalize and ...

Calligraphy dates back to before the 1st century A.D., said Dr. Chia-Ling Yang, a Chinese art history professor at the University of Edinburgh. By the 10th century, good brushwork had become known ...

Cursive is no longer a required subject. Shed a tear if you will, but please, not on fresh ink. Really, it's like asking which came first-the computer keyboard or the demise of longhand?

Casual and immediate, wild-cursive script is an ideal vehicle for the natural, unpremeditated expression of emotion. On this scroll, Chen Shun wrote out the last three from a series of five poems, ...

Shao F. Wang, New York and Short Hills, NJ, by descent, to 1998 [2] From 1998 Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Shao F. Wang in 1998 Notes: [1] According to Curatorial Note 3, Joseph Chang and Stephen D.