Palestinans pull folk tales from schools
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The Hamas-run Education Ministry has ordered an anthology of Palestinian folk tales pulled from school libraries, reportedly over mild sexual innuendo, the most direct attempt by the Islamic militants to impose their beliefs on Palestinian society.
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Education officials' plan to convert a landmark into a school is irking those intent on preserving the building's past.
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In a major test of the Hamas government, unpaid teachers shut down hundreds of schools across the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Saturday, the first day of the school year.
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As Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Palestinians alike are struggling with issues of political life and the forming of functioning governments, it is the former who may offer a lead to elements of the latter.
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A public school has stirred debate over whether it can teach Hebrew without violating the church-state divide.
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As Turkey lurches toward a repeal of a ban on head scarves at universities, the countryâs secular upper middle class is feeling increasingly threatened.
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Schools across Portugal turn away pupils because of a teachers' assignment mix up on the first day of classes.
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Israel's Education Ministry said Sunday it was offering a new textbook for Arab third-graders acknowledging for the first time that the creation of the Jewish state was a tragedy for Palestinians.
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An Italian school's substitution of a  Nativity play with Little Red Riding Hood so as not to offend  Muslim children has raised the Vatican's ire and sparked debate  on how much traditions should change to accommodate immigrants.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - Perhaps they should have seen it coming, but Afghanistan's traditional fortune tellers are under fire from religious elders who have branded their ancient practice as backward and un-Islamic.
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An international campaign has been launched to demand that four Palestinian students deported from their West Bank university to the Gaza Strip be allowed to return to complete their studies.
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Israel's education minister says schoolbooks should show the pre-1967 borders, sparking fierce right-wing criticism.
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Spanish villages are toning down traditional fiestas in which revelers blow up dummies representing the Prophet Mohammed for fear of offending Muslims, the newspaper El Pais reported on Monday.
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HALHUL, West Bank -- Ali Mahmoud Akel, a 40-year-old prep school headmaster and activist from the radical Muslim group Hamas, sat with a group of friends outside a hardware store and explained why he was running for town council member in the first local Palestinian elections in 28 years.
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ADRID, Spain, NOV. 11, 2004 .- The National Catholic Confederation of Parents of Families and Students (CONCAPA) criticized the government's decision to impart Islamic religion classes in public ...
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Children at International Schools overseas live out the raw material of a literature unique to them and to their experiences.
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Primary schools are using amusement arcade-style dance machines to teach pupils Spanish.