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...school's administrators took a look at their computer lab and deemed it unworthy of the Packer name. The staff decided that to keep pace with the galloping ubiquity of computers in the world at large, Packer had to get its computers out of the lab and into the classroom in a new and radical...
...Muslim activist in Italy goes to court to force the local public school to take down the crucifix from his son's classroom wall; when a judge rules in his favor, a wave of outrage sweeps the country. At a public high school outside Paris, two sisters are expelled for refusing to remove the head scarves they wear in observance of their Islamic faith - yet a dozen or so of their classmates wear head scarves and have not been expelled. And in Germany, a teacher sues for the right to keep her head veiled in the classroom, and after...
...Iyman Alzayed, 45, a teacher in Hanover: "My head scarf is just something that hides my hair." Germany has been grappling with these issues for more than a decade. In 1995, its Constitutional Court prohibited overwhelmingly Catholic Bavaria from applying a state law requiring that crucifixes be hung in classrooms. (The verdict has since been skirted by a Bavarian regulation allowing crosses, unless parents object.) In 1998, a young Muslim teacher named Fereshta Ludin applied for a job in Plüderhausen in Baden-Württemberg, but was rejected because she insisted on keeping her head veiled...
Cavanagh took a post-graduate year at Phillips Exeter Academy, a common step for Division I hockey players, looking to improve in the classroom...
...whip up some of the biggest laughs of the year. Black plays Dewey Finn, a guitarist thrown out of his band, rendering him even less capable of paying the rent that he owes his substitute teacher roommate. Posing as his roommate, he assumes the responsibility of educating a classroom of unusually well-behaved fifth graders, who he discovers to be, rather conveniently, excellent musicians. School of Rock echoes with comic and emotional resonance without getting mired in sentimentality, allowing Black to revel in a role in which he manages to hit all of his notes perfectly...