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One Pentecostal Christian girl, terrified by “idols,” including a six-inch gold Buddha, learned to be comfortable with other students’ beliefs. Wertheimer’s fascinating investigation, which includes a return to her rural Ohio school, which once ran weekly Christian Bible classes, reveals a public education system struggl

• Title : Faith Ed: Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance
• Author : Linda K. Wertheimer
• Rating : 4.77 (422 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-9-22
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 232 Pages
• Asin : 0807055271
• Language : English

One Pentecostal Christian girl, terrified by “idols,” including a six-inch gold Buddha, learned to be comfortable with other students’ beliefs. Wertheimer’s fascinating investigation, which includes a return to her rural Ohio school, which once ran weekly Christian Bible classes, reveals a public education system struggling to find the right path forward and offers a promising roadmap for raising a new generation of religiously literate Americans.. Wellesley school officials defended the course, but also acknowledged the delicate dance teachers must perform when dealing with religion in the classroom.Courts long ago banned public school teachers from preaching of any kind. A video of the prayer went viral with the title “Wellesley, Massachusetts Public School Students Learn to Pray to Allah.” Charges flew that the school exposed the children to Muslims who intended to convert American schoolchildren. Across the country, parents have requested that their children be excused from lessons on Hinduism and Judaism out of fear they will shy away from their own faiths.But in Modesto, a city in the heart of California’s Bible Belt, teachers have avoided problems since 2000, when the school system began requiring all high school freshmen to take a world religions course. The class was visiting a mosque to learn about world religions when

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Wertheimer combines her personal experience with vivid reporting to reveal the fault lines as well as a pathway to progress. At a time when religion and intolerance are at the heart of conflicts both global and local, this powerful book is required reading.”—Mitchell Zuckoff, author of 13 Hours and Lost in Shangri-La“Linda Wertheimer has given us a deeply reported, sobering look at the promise and taboos of teaching religion in our public schools. This is essential reading for everyone concerned about building respect among young people for the diversity of religious faith in America.”—Stephen D. Solomon, author of Ellery's Protest: How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer“In Faith Ed, an impassioned journalist takes her readers on a tour of timely topic:  what it is like to teach the world’s religions in a climate of hostility and ignorance. It may be of value for individuals who have experienced religious intolerance at school or for those l

. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Writer, the Atlantic online, Tiferet, Moment, and the Boston Globe Magazine. Linda K. She was previously the education editor of the Boston Globe and a reporter at the Dallas Morning News and Orlando Sentinel. Wertheimer is an award-winning education writer and essayist. A graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, she lives in Lexington, Massachusetts