Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation mandating cursive instruction in New Jersey schools. Was it really worth it?

On the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robert Kaplow says Ethan Hawke deserves to win best actor.

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Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

We got a good reminder of that this week after Weekend Update decided to kick it to Sarah Sherman as a correspondent to talk ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

New Delhi: Saraswati Puja 2026 knocks on the door with its gentle spring breeze, landing on 23 January—a day when yellow blooms light up homes and hearts across India, especially in Bengal and Assam ...

CBSE Class 10 English 2026: What are the key topics to revise? With the CBSE Class 10 English (Language and Literature) exam nearing, revision works best when students are clear about what the paper ...

Anyone with halfway decent speaking skills and a little chutzpah might think that hosting is as easy as holding a mic and reading from a prompter. And then they find themselves… holding a mic in front ...

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