Muslim women’s segregation in UK communities must end – Cameron
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 […]
More Chinese parents sending children to boarding schools in the US
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 […]
Md. school system keeps Jewish holidays, adds days off for Diwali, Lunar New Year and Eid al-Adha
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 […]
Maryland school district to recognize Muslim holiday
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 […]
Indoctrination is not the real issue in public school lessons on Islam (COMMENTARY)
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 […]
E-learning for Africa held back by power shortage
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 […]
Syrian refugees $250m extra for schools
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 […]
What Quality Education Should Teach You, According to a Harvard Scientist
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 […]
Let’s tap into Islam’s heritage of critical education to defeat extremism in schools
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 […]
Exclusive: Wheaton College Provost Called Suspended Professor’s Muslim Comments ‘Innocuous’
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 […]
Mosques oppose madrassa registration
Source: BBC An organisation of mosques says it “unequivocally” rejects government proposals to require madrassas in England to be registered and inspected. The Northern Council of Mosques, representing 400 mosques, […]
What should we teach about Islam?
waqarahmedi.wordpress.com: What a roller coaster of a year 2015 was – especially if you teach about religion. The frenzied debate about free speech post-Charlie Hebdo, spate of ISIS terror attacks and, yes, Donald Trump, propelled classroom practitioners like me into relentless action. But these things and more also made us rethink […]
Schools must teach children that Britain is a Christian country
Source: The Telegraph Schools must teach pupils that Britain is a Christian country and are entitled to prioritise the views of established religions over atheism, the Education Secretary has said. […]
An Open Letter to Fellow Educators & Leaders Regarding Religious Literacy in Schools
Source: Huffington Post By Anisha Ismail Patel Founder & CEdO of InnovusED . Global Educator. Social Entrepreneur . Promotes Women & Youth Service Leadership As 2015 rolls to a close, […]
Nigeria’s Boko Haram ‘forces one million out of school’Bo
Source: BBC An Islamist insurgency has kept about one million children out of school in Nigeria and three neighbouring states, the UN children’s agency has said. More than 2,000 schools […]
A guy with $170,000 in student loans who can’t find a job in the legal profession is suing his law school and working full time for Uber
Source: Yahoo News Clark Moffatt, 35, says he dreamed of a career in criminal justice when he graduated from San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2006. But since […]
Meet the British physicist who ignored Taliban death threats to teach in the badlands of Pakistan
Voices Meet the British physicist who ignored Taliban death threats to teach in the badlands of Pakistan David Gosling spent four years as principal of University of Peshawar – “When you have education in its totality, it enables our students to see what should be obvious: we are all one” Robert […]
Home school families face potential investigation over ‘radicalisation risk’
Source: The Guardian Families who home-school their children could to come under investigation over fears the practice is used as a means of radicalisation, the government has confirmed. The education […]
Amal Clooney endows scholarship for Lebanese girls
Source: CNN The powerhouse human rights attorney — who also frequents the red carpet with husband George Clooney — is endowing an annual scholarship to send one female student from […]
Vocational education’s global gap
Source: BBC The topic of “vocational education” often has a recurrent theme. Everyone says it’s a good thing and it’s vital for the economy. But – and there is always […]