Parents of seventh graders at a Tennessee middle school have expressed unease over recent lessons about the Islamic faith — particularly the assignment to write out the Five Pillars of Islam and the ...

The story of Adam and Eve is one of the foundational narratives in Islam. Muslims believe that Adam (Adam) was the first ...

The Washington Post reports this week that a Gulf War veteran is suing the Charles County school system in Virginia. He claims that its high school’s lessons on Islam violated his daughter’s ...

Islam, which many Americans consider a threat, has a valuable and little-noticed lesson for Western investors. Following Muslims' Shariah law, the religion's investing style avoids highly indebted ...

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 ...

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 ...

A school lesson on the Islamic religion is causing quite a stir in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Parents are upset the subject matter is too deep for sixth graders and doesn't tell the whole story of ...

A father of a student at La Plata High School in Maryland was banned from school grounds last week when he took issue with a lesson on the history of Islam in his daughter’s World History class. On ...

WASHINGTON — As a high school junior, Caleigh Wood refused to complete a history lesson on "The Muslim World" that she said forced her to embrace Islam in conflict with her Christian faith — and the ...

You could call it Exhibit A. It's a drawing in a text used to teach Islam to Muslim students at German elementary schools, and it shows a family at a table, a father, two children, and a mother, with ...

Kathleen Kennedy Manzo was a managing editor for Education Week/edweek.org. She was a reporter at Education Week for 13 years covering curriculum, standards, and education technology. A version of ...

The violent Islamic State group continues to unnerve people all over the world, but a recent attack in downtown Jakarta actually highlights the limits of its power ...