The Tony Blair Faith Foundation recently announced the launch of its "global schools program" in the United States.
education
The battle over Islamic Azad University
A university campus has become the ground for a political battle between conservatives and moderates in Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…
The “inter-religious” university and the Christian right
In early June, the Claremont School of Theology announced that it would merge with its local Jewish and Muslim counterparts…
Christian voices oppose educational reform
President Obama's recent initiative, Race to the Top, has received growing opposition from the National Council of the Churches of Christ in…
Israeli ultra-Orthodox protest school integration
Yesterday afternoon in Jerusalem, vast numbers of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested the court-mandated integration of a religious girls' school, raising provocative…
A right to home-school?
At Miller-McCune, Michael Scott Moore reports on a German family that was granted asylum by a federal immigration judge in…
Education and American civil religion
Education Review, an open-access online journal, reviews the recently published Public Education, America's Civil Religion: A Social History (Teachers College Press, 2009)…
The (religious) textbook wars
At The Faith Divide, Eboo Patel weighs in on the ongoing "culture war" over the religious content of textbooks in…
“How Christian Were the Founders?”
In this weekend's New York Times Magazine, Russell Shorto takes a long look at the Texas textbook controversy. Shorto comes to this…
The strange case of Texas’s textbooks
At Washington Monthly, Mariah Blake comments on the ongoing controversy over Texas's once-in-a-decade revision of its textbook standards. With standards for…