August 17th, 20190DEARBORN — Extending the emphasis on critical languages and global empowerment, teachers from across the state of Michigan gathered to expand on their techniques and to increase the effective resources of conveying Arabic as a critical language.
STARTALK, a federal grant program funded by the National Security Agency and...
April 6th, 20180CHICAGO — Teacher demonstrations are likely to spread as more educators hit the streets to take on states that they claim are choosing tax cuts over the education of students in elementary and secondary public schools.
Protests have erupted in states with some of the lowest teacher salaries in the nation, leading to multi-day job...
July 21st, 20172DEARBORN — Michigan first welcomed Arabs back in the 1880s when Lebanese and Syrian immigrants arrived in the city of Detroit seeking employment.
The Arab American community has continued to grow, and with it their mother tongue. It's now the most popular foreign language in the state.
Weekend Arabic programs for kids formed...
June 12th, 20170HOUSTON- A teacher at a Houston-area school is out of a job after presenting mock awards to seventh-grade students, including one for being "most likely to be a terrorist," the school district said on Wednesday.
"We have concluded our investigation and the teacher responsible is no longer employed by the district," the Channelview...
May 12th, 20171DEARBORN — On May 8, parents at the Dearborn Public School Board of Education meeting voiced their concerns regarding a teacher attempting to proselytize Muslim students at Woodworth Middle School.
The world religions teacher was not named at the meeting, but parents said that she discussed her own baptism, read from her Bible for...
