Source: Harvard Gazette Harvard Divinity School senior lecturer Diane Moore has modest goals for her upcoming online course, “World Religions Through Their Scripture.” She merely wants to increase religious understanding, […]
Source: The Tennessean A Texas expert on religion in public school textbooks waded into Tennessee’s ongoing discussion about how to appropriately teach world religions, specifically Islam, during a Tuesday night forum. […]
ARAB NEWS Published — Monday 8 February 2016 MADINAH: A member of the Senior Scholars Council, Dr. Abdullah Al-Manieh, has called for the establishment of women’s departments at the Islamic University in Madinah in line with other universities in the Kingdom. “The Muslim woman has had her own status and […]
Feb 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GORDON BROWN Buried in the declaration from the just-completed fourth United Nations’ Syria Pledging Conference in London is a little publicised but important promise: by next year, every Syrian refugee child will be offered a place in school. The world, at long last, has […]
Sooke Grade 11 math teacher Matthew Pell repeatedly referred to the teen as “Taliban” and told the class “don’t make her angry, otherwise she will bomb you.” A Vancouver Island […]
Jan 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh By “lost generation” I am not referring to Gertrude Stein’s famous description of the generation that grew up during and after World War I in America and Europe. I am borrowing the term to describe the current, sad, state of our young […]
Seventy-seven per cent of Brits support deporting migrants on spousal visas if they fail to learn English withinin two and a half years. Blimey Yasmin Choudhury @yasminisyasmin 26 comments British Muslims leave an East London mosque following prayers Getty Muslims this morning woke to the news that Trevor Phillips, the ex-chairman […]
The two-hour QNL public lecture will be held on February 1 at Georgetown University in Education City. INSIGHT: Ahmed Ragab will explain the historicity of the relationship of science and Islam. By Umer Nangiana As part of its public lecture series intended to create a bridge between scholars of science […]
Source: Huffington Post I am dreading the day that my young son comes home from school hurt from his first experience of anti-Muslim bigotry. At age 8, he has little […]
Source: BBC A 10-year-old Muslim boy who mistakenly wrote that he lived in a “terrorist house” during an English lesson at school has been investigated by police. The pupil, who […]
Source: BBC A £20m fund to teach Muslim women in the UK to speak English will tackle segregation and help them resist the lure of extremism, David Cameron says. While […]
Source: China Daily This holiday season was a little hectic for me as I was hosting three family friends from China. Entrepreneurs, scholars and physicians, no matter what the parents do for a living, they share something in common: They’ve sent their teenagers to boarding schools in the US. It […]
Source: The Washington Post Howard County’s school board voted unanimously this week to markedly expand its schedule of religious and cultural holidays, a decision members said recognized the growing diversity […]
Source: World Bulletin / News Desk District by district, Eid al-Adha will now become a holiday where more Muslim children in the United States can look forward to celebrating outside […]
Source: Religion News Service (RNS) Opponents of lessons on Islam often claim that Christianity takes a back seat in public schools’ religious instruction. That’s what an Augusta County, Va., mother […]
Source: BBC Is a lack of power holding back educational technology in Africa? There are well-documented problems about access to education. The Africa Learning Barometer at the US-based Center for […]
Source: BBC An extra $250m (£174m) emergency funding will be provided for educating Syrian refugee children this year, the UN global education envoy Gordon Brown has announced in New […]
http://time.com: Harvard’s great biologist/psychologist Steven Pinker is one of my favorites, even though I’m just starting to get into his work. What makes him great is not just his rational […]
The Guardian: The policy response to the threat of radicalisation has focused on law, security and intelligence. As the problem spirals out of control, this one-dimensional response, which includes the […]
Source: Time Faculty speak out to defend teacher The Wheaton College provost overseeing an expulsion trial against a tenured professor who said Christians and Muslims worship the same God wrote […]