Morton Grove resident Jenny Montgomery said a young Muslim boy in her fourth grade classroom asked her repeatedly to come to a recent open house at the mosque where the boy and his family worship.

Researchers at Pew have said their analysis of data on the educational attainment of Muslim women across the world shows that religion plays a much less significant role in limiting their achievements ...

In Arabic, the first meaning of “madrasa” is “school” — in a generic and nonsectarian sense. Borrowed into English, however, the word usually means much more. It is the term’s secondary definition, ...

Senior Prince Islam is the son of two Bangladeshi immigrants, neither of whom were able to pursue formal education. Therefore, getting a good education was a priority in Islam’s house growing up. “I ...

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A group of Muslim parents joined parental and religious freedom rights advocates Tuesday to protest a Maryland school system’s new policy that removes the parents’ authority to opt their children out ...

Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture, Pratikno, on Tuesday called for a stronger role for ...

Seventh-grader Zahir Hameed says many students don’t have a problem with him. But there’s one kid who calls him names. “He just calls me 'stupid' and 'idiot,' and he just acts like I’m about to bomb ...

The issue of the right of Afghan girls and women to education has become a matter of growing international concern since the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban. Aware of the fact that in order to ...

This article seeks to understand major factors contributing to the gender gap as regards women education in Muslim societies. Eastern countries where Muslims are the dominant community still lag ...

We may think the charged relationship between science and religion is mainly a problem for Christian fundamentalists, but modern science is also under fire in the Muslim world. Islamic creationist ...

Homam Almahdi grew up in a Syrian-American family in West Los Angeles, the oldest of four children. Bookish and sensitive, he worked hard in school, and went to mosque. All the time, he kept a secret ...