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EDUCATION / NEWS Sun Oct 7, 2007 @ 9:36pm neoform

Times Online -- Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs. Some trainee doctors say learning to treat the diseases con.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Wed Feb 14, 2007 @ 8:03am neoform

MSNBC -- The Kansas state Board of Education on Tuesday repealed science guidelines questioning evolution that had made the state an object of ridicule. The new guidelines reflect mainstream scientific views of evolution and represent a political defeat for adv.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Tue Feb 13, 2007 @ 9:27am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- For the fourth time in eight years, the Kansas Board of Education is preparing to take up the issue of evolution and what to teach -- or not teach -- public school students about the origins of life. After victory at the polls in November, a moderate m.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Wed Jan 10, 2007 @ 9:50am mrmdc

CBC -- A school program to fight childhood obesity that includes yoga is drawing complaints from some Christian parents in the Quesnel area in B.C.'s Cariboo region... Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Mon Dec 18, 2006 @ 9:19am neoform

New York Times -- Before David Paszkiewicz got to teach his accelerated 11th-grade history class about the United States Constitution this fall, he was accused of violating it... Read More

EDUCATION / OPINION Fri Dec 8, 2006 @ 8:24am neoform

Americans United -- A group of Pagans in Albemarle County, Va., was recently given permission to advertise their multi-cultural holiday program to public school children – and they have the Rev. Jerry Falwell to thank for it... Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Wed Feb 21, 2007 @ 10:19am mrmdc

BBC News -- A 12-year-old schoolgirl has failed in an attempted legal challenge to her school's ban on a full-face veil. Mr Justice Silber had been told that the girl's three older sisters had attended the same school and had worn the niqab with no problems. Bu.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Sat Feb 10, 2007 @ 9:17pm neoform

media.www.tuftsdaily.com -- According to the "hoot and cry of the far-right, American universities are all bastions of atheism and communism," University Chaplain Reverend David O'Leary said, referring to a stereotype of the college professoriate as a demographic largely devoid of r.. Read More