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guardian.co.uk
03-Sep-2008
        
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Rabbis Goldberg and Romain are right to suggest that "faith schools are not the best way to heal our fractured society" (Campaigners fight to stop schools recruiting staff based on religion, August 30). By their nature, faith schools are prone to separate youngsters from the wider culture, and lead them to assume they are different and, by definition, superior to the rest of the population. That is bad for... [read full story]                    

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Parents and community give schools extra $56m

 apn.co.nz 05-Sep-2008
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State-Funded Faith Schools Under Fire in Britain

 cnsnews.com 03-Sep-2008
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Parents and community give schools extra $56m

apn.co.nz
05-Sep-2008
        

The amount of money schools are raising from their communities rose by $56 million last year - going up almost $15 million in the Auckland region. New Ministry of Education figures, released to the Weekend Herald this...

                   

Savitri Hensman

guardian.co.uk
05-Sep-2008
        

One of the reasons I am backing the new Accord coalition for fully inclusive policies in all Britain's schools, is that the social world created by the school is one of the key arenas where we can learn to live alongside...

                   

Diversity, attainment and faith schools

ekklesia.co.uk
04-Sep-2008
        

Those who defend discriminatory practices for faith schools are losing the argument on principle, in terms of community cohesion and on the research evidence about standards, says Andrew Copson. Let's open schooling up...

                   

Faiths and schools: Religious rights and wrongs

economist.com
04-Sep-2008
        

A campaign to loosen the grip of the godly on state educationIN BRITAIN, a largely secular country where churches retain their historic role in education, there is little agreement about the place of religion in schools....

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