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Happy Campers

The Religious Zionist youth movement Bnei Akiva has run educational summer camps for children and teenagers for over 80 years. With over 45,000 members in 34 countries, the movement says its summer camps are a great opportunity to instill Jewish … Continue reading

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Muslim world turns to Turkish model of education

By Nichole SobeckiISTANBUL, Turkey — Children crowd into a large, open room an hour drive from Peshawar, Pakistan, their young bodies packed together despite the lingering heat. A small boy with a serious face sits in the back, a copy … Continue reading

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Fort Wayne schools ending Bible class program

Associated Press    Published: August 10, 2010 FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Fort Wayne school officials have decided to stop sending students to a religious instruction program on school grounds that triggered a federal lawsuit. The School Board voted unanimously Monday … Continue reading

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Clash looms over church demand for new schools

By John Walshe Monday August 09 2010THE Catholic Church is demanding new primary schools in developing urban areas in return for handing over schools elsewhere.The move is revealed in confidential church submissions to a Department of Education working group, which … Continue reading

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Teacher-turned-Christian rapper teaches kids to pray through

There's "East Coast rap." There's "West Coast rap." And then there's "Rosary rap." One local Catholic teacher is trying to get kids to pray by rapping. He showed his stuff at the recent Los Angeles Religious Education Congress in Anaheim.  … Continue reading

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Sibal: Will issue safeguards for madrassas

HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday told Muslim religious leaders that legally valid guidelines would be issued to ensure the Right to Education Act did not hinder madrassas, but ruled out an “immediate amendment”. With this, a bridge between him … Continue reading

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Tajik Officials Keep Sharp Eye On Islamic Teaching

August 02, 2010 By Farangis NajibullahAbu-Umar Ahmadov says most of the eight- to 16-year-old students in his evening and weekend classes on Islamic principles and ethics are sent to him by well-intentioned parents. They merely want to keep their kids … Continue reading

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Creationists hijack lessons and teach schoolkids man and dinosaurs walked together

PRIMARY school students are being taught that man and dinosaurs walked the Earth together and that there is fossil evidence to prove it. Fundamentalist Christians are hijacking Religious Instruction (RI) classes in Queensland despite education experts saying Creationism and attempts … Continue reading

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From streets to Madrassa: The transformation of Almajirai

Recently, the Federal Ministry of Education received a report on how it can integrate Madrassa education system, which has turned into the much-criticised Almajirai system in the Northern part of the country, with the western education system. Northern Bureau Chief, … Continue reading

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Pak kids connect peace to City

The scars of Partition, the wounds of lost love and land, lived in the minds of generations of Indians and Pakistanis for over six decades. Schoolkids discuss the upcoming Pakistani students’ visit. A school in Bangalore feels it is time … Continue reading

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