1.This sentiment carries over into public schools, where teaching about the world’s religions often sparks controversy and charges from some parents and activists that classrooms are an inappropriate place for this discussion.
2.Yet educators frequently counter that a public-school curriculum is incomplete without religious literacy, which the American public sorely lacks.
3.This ongoing ideological struggle is the basis of a new book, Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance, in which Linda K. Wertheimer, a veteran education writer and editor, examines the friction and sometimes outright confrontation over teaching religion in public schools.
my praphrasing:
Although many parents believe that teaching religion is unbefitting in a classroom, educators feel that keeping religion out of the curiculum is doing more harm than good. spitting out religiously ignorant students. The quarrel between ideas is what Linda K. Wertheimer's new book, Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance, is focused on.
3 QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MAJOR PLAYERS YOUR ARTICLE HAS IDENTIFIED THAT WILL PROVIDE CONTEXT FOR THAT PLAYER'S TOLE IN THE ISSUE
- teachers: ASK TEACHER FRIENDS
- parents: what can be done to show parents the importance of religious literacy?
- public school system:
- issue as a whole: what are some of the negative effects of America's growing religious ignorance? (interacting with other countries? anti-muslim movement....)
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