Sentences with phrase «muslim students»

Psychology Professor Fiona White from Sydney University said the Dual Identity Electronic (E-contact)(DIEC) project involved 92 Catholic and 96 Muslim students from segregated schools in an semester - long program about how their respective religions could be integrated to develop a water saving, energy saving or recycling solution for Australia.

Members of the Muslim Students...

Omar — I have read the Bouchard - Taylor Commission report cover to cover (and most other publicly released reports on reasonable accomodation like the CFS Report on reasonable accomodation for Muslim students) and quite frankly don't accept them as gospel.

Last but not least, Ezra gets the silly award by creating what Craig Pearson in an article in The National Post called his latest «made - up controversy,» by accusing an Ontario school board of kowtowing to Muslim students who he alleged, wanted to avoid commemorating Remembrance Day.

The story involves an incident, which took place on April 11, 2007, when a student at the Lewiston Middle School placed a bag containing leftover ham on the cafeteria table where Somali Muslim students were sitting for lunch.

The pews, having been removed recently in order to offer Muslim students a place to pray, are a symbolic gesture of religious tolerance.

According to museum literature, the row of pews was recently removed from Bond Chapel as an inclusive gesture to open floor space for Muslim students to pray.

In part two, students watch a video about efforts to combat the targeting of Muslim students at one school, consider what actions they might take to counter anti-Muslim bias and harassment, and prepare to take those actions.

His department publishes a monthly Envision Equity newsletter highlighting stories about Muslim students or issues like the impact of standardized testing on African - American students.

Rest assured that, should policy proposals be brought forward at the federal level that would attempt to undermine the rights of students - be they proposals to end protections for students created under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, eliminate protections for LGBT youth, or the creation of a registry targeted at the families of Muslim students, to name but three possible proposals aligning with statements made during the presidential campaign - CCSA and our hundreds of member schools across the state stand ready to partner with legislators in California to prevent any such threatening proposals from being enacted or enforced.

Prince George's Co. school lets Muslim students out of class to pray Washington Post commentary by columnist Valerie Strauss

«Prevent is so strong that teachers feel that disagreeing with them is seen as condoning extremism and there is pressure to «watch» Muslim students and their work,» one black secondary school teacher said.

Earlier this week, the university said Muslim students could use the bell tower — but then backtracked after getting threats.

Three Muslim students in North Carolina were shot to death on Tuesday by a neighbor over what police are describing as a parking dispute.

More than half of California Muslim students have been bullied for faith, report says scpr.org/news/2017/10/3...

This piece stems from their personal and professional work in public schools as well as their research on the experiences of Muslim students and families in public schools.

Our job is to ensure that our Muslim students feel as welcomed as every other group of students.

The challenges Muslim students face may not be apparent to their teachers and friends, however.

Contains some contentious topics, but have used it in my school with 30 % Muslim students.

Other questions covered teacher merit pay, national academic standards (also known as the «Common Core»), immigration and English immersion in school, computers in school and Muslim students and after school clubs.

My colleagues and I asked a representative sample of Americans: «Do you support or oppose allowing a group of Muslim students to organize an...

Given the current political climate, particularly nationwide protests against the «Muslim ban» this past weekend, all school - age students, but especially Muslim students, must be feeling especially confused.

Mariam Durrani, an expert on Islamophobia and Muslim youth and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), says that even if there are no Muslim students in a class, «changing educational and society - wide demographics suggest that as young people come of age, we'll have even greater need for conversations about learning across difference and about addressing systemic inequalities,» whether about religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identifiers.

Fighting Islamophobia in schools will lead not only to healthier and happier Muslim students, but also to more cooperative classrooms and more welcoming and equitable communities.

«It should be put on the curriculum, it should be made compulsory for Muslim generations, Muslim students, and it should be made optional for non-Muslim students.

A study into teachers» experience with the Prevent strategy shows that they fear it can negatively impact Muslim students

Californians are more likely to favor allowing the formation of after - school clubs by Muslim students than by Evangelical ones.

How would you feel about a group of Muslim students organizing an after - school club atyour local public school?

The study also highlighted that some respondents found the duty counter productive, as it might lead to Muslim students withdrawing from sharing concerns and questions with staff due to feelings that they are being singled out.

Talk about Islamic schools and Muslim students, though, and chances are you'll reinforce someone's stereotype, somewhere, which is why I'd like to tell you my recent experience on yard duty.

Although the school has few Muslim students, accounts of violence and racism against Muslim students abound in a nearby school.

However, the study did find concerns about the negative impact it could have on Muslim students.

The class discusses Edmund Burke's quote for an hour, and then spends another hour working in small groups creating campaigns to end racism against Muslim students.

The study said: «We found widespread - and in some cases very acute - concerns about increased stigmatisation of Muslim students.»

Through first - person narratives, Muslim students, who often feel unseen and unheard, misunderstood and marginalized in their schools and communities, are empowered to speak their truth and define themselves.

When doing this with Muslim students, I give them the option to opt out as they are not meant to compare Allah to anything.

But the Muslim students in Baltimore County and every other Maryland school system who observe the holiday by missing school will be marked absent — despite efforts in the Free State to give them flexibility to take the day off.

Paul is joined by EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West to discuss findings from the new EdNext poll on school reform, which measured public support for the rights of Muslim students and of evangelical students to form afterschool religious clubs.

We sought to cast some light on this heated topic with the following survey question, posed in 2008 and again in 2017: «Do you support or oppose allowing a group of Muslim students to organize an afterschool club at your local public school?»

• The Education Exchange: Should Muslim Students Be Allowed to Form Afterschool Religious Clubs?

The general public is more favorable toward allowing Muslim students to form afterschool clubs than it was in 2008.

On net, there has been a steep increase, not a decline, in the public's inclination to allow Muslim students to gather together after school in a club of their own choice.

Exploring the Sources Birmingham Muslim Students House England United.

Three muslim students were killed in Chapel Hill; motive is still unknown, but some are calling it a hate crime.

In the Middle East, researchers found that Muslim students under mortality salience conditions expressed more support and sympathy for suicide bombers, and a greater willingness to carry out such attacks themselves (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol 32, p 525).

The Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN), on Wednesday declared that Nigerians were fed up with what it called «white paper» development without a corresponding comfort...

He said, «The persistent pains, harassment, embarrassment and humiliation suffered by female Muslim students in Lagos State and some states in Nigeria for using hijab would not have been this relieved if not for a rare personality like Adetola - Kaseem, whom Allah used for fighting the cause for us without collecting a dime.

The Muslim Students» Society of Nigeria (MSSN) has expressed delight over the release of some students of Government Secondary School Dapchi Yobe State, recently abducted by Boko Haram insurgents.

The Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN) has on Sunday described the recent clamour from some quarters for the establishment of state police as not only...

The Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency check excesses of overzealous officers in some ministries, departments and agencies before it is too late.