Texas public school lessons could soon change how students learn about world religions, slavery and civil rights, as the State Board of Education moves toward final approval of a sweeping social ...

Islam: One of the monotheistic religions closely related to Judaism and Christianity. “Islam” means to “surrender” or to “submit” to the will of God. Muslim: A person who is a follower of Islam. A ...

Though this is the last lesson, I hope that this primer on Islam has only made you more hungry to understand and engage this world religion. Ten years ago, after the tragic events of 9-11, I began to ...

Parents in Farmville, North Carolina want to know why their children were given a Common Core vocabulary assignment in an English class that promoted the Prophet Muhammad and the Islamic faith. “It ...

GREENVILLE, Va. — Just a few days after more than 100 people met in fury over a world geography assignment by a Virginia high school teacher, the tide seems to have turned with support for the teacher ...

State Board of Education members on Friday approved a rewrite of what Texas high schoolers learn in social studies, disregarding pleas from Muslims who testified that schools should teach how people ...

What do the new standards actually require Texas students to learn, and when will the changes reach classrooms?

A student-teacher in Maine has been dismissed from his internship at a high school after students and parents contended that a unit he prepared for a world history class stepped over the line between ...

John Kevin Wood says his daughter’s school has banned him from campus for more than a year, illegally punishing him for raising objections to classroom lessons about Islam. Now he’s gone to court for ...