Parents erupt over homework assignment asking students to write a phrase in Arabic saying "There is no God but Allah " Backlash over a homework assignment on Islam at a Virginia school led officials ...

A central Virginia school district has canceled classes Friday after concerns over the "tone and content" of calls and emails received about a lesson in Arabic calligraphy. Augusta County Public ...

A school in Virgina is embroiled in a religious controversy after a schoolteacher assigned an Arabic calligraphy assignment to students. Although the course has taught students in the past about ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US A school was closed after a lesson in Arabic ...

A Portland student writes answers in Arabic during an exercise in language class. (Staff) Arabic calligraphy lesson: Hugh Ferguson is bothered by the reaction of parents to a lesson in which students ...

Arabic calligraphy lesson: Regarding "Schools close over Arabic lesson anger," (Dec. 19): This is by far the scariest piece I've read in recent memory; it implies that we as a nation are freaking out ...

VERONA, Va. — Schools in a Shenandoah Valley county in Virginia were closed Friday and a weekend holiday concert and athletic events were canceled amid an angry backlash about a school lesson ...

Late last week, a high-school teacher in central Virginia gave her students a lesson in Arabic calligraphy. Over the following six days, schools in Augusta County were inundated with outraged phone ...

Schools in a central Virginia school district will be closed on Friday due to backlash against a high school world geography class assignment. Augusta County Public Schools Superintendent Eric Bond ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. STAUNTON, Va. – A rural Virginia school district canceled classes and a ...

Friday, January 11: Join the Student Sit-Ins at the Greensboro Lunch Counter Four black students sat at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960 and helped to change the course of American history. By ...