He opened the card, looked at it and said, "I can't read cursive yet." Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been ...

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 ...

Nestled atop a plateau that overlooks deserts and savannas linking the coastal lowlands and central highlands of Ethiopia and ...

The Quran contains approximately fifty references to the Children of Israel, along with 137 references to Moses and 18 references to the Torah. Most of these references are positive… ...

Our knowledge of women’s place in pre-Islamic Arab society is limited, but the Quran evidently called for some improvements. It condemned, for instance, the live burial of unwanted newborn girls ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities. A spokesperson for Sweden’s prosecutor ...

Amir Daftari is a Newsweek reporter based in London, specializing in global affairs with a focus on the Middle East. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously worked at ...

An Iraqi man who staged Quran burnings in Sweden was shot dead hours before he was set to receive a verdict on Thursday in a trial tied to the desecrations of Islam’s holy book that drew ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

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