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June 14, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/10/AR2007061000482.html

A Struggle for Young Palestinian Minds

[AP/Washington Post] Karin Laub and Dalia Nammari - During a year in power, the Islamic Hamas movement has begun taking control of Palestinian schools and is making changes. Palestinian children spend more of their school day studying Islam. Critical jobs in public education are filled by Islamic stalwarts. A once-banned social studies reader, crammed with hard-line rhetoric, is now in classrooms. "You are seeing the gradual transformation of a largely secular national...education system and curriculum into a more ideological, closed system," said Hanan Ashrawi, a former minister of higher education.

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