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One of the city's (New York) newest public schools is named for poet who promoted peace and published his most famous work while living in New York, but there has been little peace for the Khalil Gibran International Academy.
With a little more than a week remaining until the academic year starts, the school - announced in February as the city's first to offer instruction in Arabic and on Arab culture - already has had to move once and has its second principal, both because of protests.
Critics have attacked the school, named for a Lebanese Christian, as a potential radical Islam training ground.
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Potential radical Islam training ground or just another public school?
One of the city's (New York) newest public schools is named for poet who promoted peace and published his most famous work while living in New York, but there has been little peace for the Khalil Gibran International Academy.
With a little more than a week remaining until the academic year starts, the school - announced in February as the city's first to offer instruction in Arabic and on Arab culture - already has had to move once and has its second principal, both because of protests.
Critics have attacked the school, named for a Lebanese Christian, as a potential radical Islam training ground.
- I Stand For Homeschooling
Unity ~N~ Diversity maintains we are Victims of our own success , I hope not. I think it is important that we distinguish between those of us who are independent homeschoolers and those who engage in virtual public school at home. I blogged briefly about...
- Paddling Not Just A Christian Fundamentalist Issue
Jackson Public Schools board members are discussing the pros and cons of resuming the use of paddling as punishment. Though allowed by a majority of public school districts in the state, the practice was abolished in 1991 in the state's largest school...
- According To Newt Gingrich
"A growing culture of radical secularism declares that the nation cannot profess the truths on which it was founded," Gingrich said. "We are told that our public schools can no longer invoke the creator, nor proclaim the natural law nor profess the God-given...
- Salinger, J. D.
Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919 in New York City, New York. Perhaps his most famous work is Catcher in the Rye. You can find lesson plans for Catcher in the Rye at Dr. G's Lesson Plans for High School English. The New York Times...
- Educational News
In New Jersey we have Hell in the Public School Classroom. Sixteen-year-old junior Matthew LaClair says he was shocked when history teacher David Paszkiewicz, who is also a Baptist preacher in town, spent the first week lecturing students more about Heaven...