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...business is creating what Universal calls an "Islamic environment." The Koran and the sayings of Muhammad are taught two days a week, Arabic three days a week. Grades 2 to 12 break for prayer once a day. Beyond Scripture, a Muslim approach influences the traditional curriculum as well. When teacher Fuzia Jarad's English class read Romeo and Juliet, the girls wanted to know, "Is it love at first sight?" "Yes," the teacher answered. "As Muslims, we don't do that. The difference is lust versus love; appearance versus knowing. Islam protects you from mistakes." For assistant principal Abdallah...
...students next door sometimes give voice to the commonplace resentment that can be found among Muslims the world over. Assigned by his English teacher to write an essay about his own American Dream, a 15-year-old wrote that the occupied territories should be returned to the Palestinians and "the Jews should be left to suffer." More often, however, Universal's students feel resentment about being stereotyped, both in the media and on the streets. To senior Ali Fadhli, the Fox TV show 24, which had a plot this season about a Muslim terrorist cell, is "obnoxious," he says. "America...
...percent of students in the senior class apply to the Teach for America program, according to Orin Gutlerner, the director of the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program...
...next year, Eskander came back and found John placed in her class again. But this time, things were different, and, to Eskander’s surprise, she and John developed a better relationship. “Mariam has been my teacher for two years and she’s my favorite teacher,” he wrote in an assignment...
...night of the 2000 Presidential Election, NBC News anchor Tim Russert, like any good teacher, presented his material to the people in terms they could understand...