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Turkey "Improves" Education
by Burak Bekdil
• December 11, 2014 at 5:00 am
Members
of Turkey's National Education Council last week did not discuss Turkey's
extremely poor PISA rankings, or improving the curriculum in mathematics and
science. Instead, a pro-government teachers' union proposed making religion a
required course in pre-school.
Turkey's
response to the European Court of Human Rights, which vehemently told Ankara
to scrap all compulsory religious education, was to introduce Islamic
teaching to six-year-olds.
Another
casualty was the "human rights and democracy" classes that Turkish
fourth-grade students must take.
Systematic Islamist indoctrination in Turkey is becoming less stealthy.
Education is the new battlefield. Turkey's government is pushing to
advance its declared policy goal of "raising devout (Muslim)
generations."
In 2012, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
[OECD] released the findings of its prestigious education report, the
"Program for International Student Assessment" [PISA], which
experts view as the world's most comprehensive education survey. PISA
assesses the extent to which 15-year-old pupils from 65 OECD member nations
have acquired key knowledge and skills in mathematics, reading, science and
problem-solving (the PISA survey covers 510,000 students worldwide.)
Will Sweden Soon Reverse Recognition of Palestine as a State?
by Peter Martino
• December 11, 2014 at 4:30 am
As many
Swedes have grown sick and tired of a political elite giving in to Islamic
demands, it is generally expected that the anti-immigration party, the Sweden
Democrats, will do well in the next elections.
It takes
some time before voters realize what is going on, but in the end, they
invariably do.
Last week, after having been in office for exactly two months and one
day, Sweden's government collapsed. Apart from the Palestinians, hardly
anyone will regret the fall of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's government. The
only thing Löfven's cabinet will be remembered for is its slamming of Israel
by recognizing the Palestinian state.
Following last September's general elections, Mr. Löfven, a
Social-Democrat, formed a minority government of the Social-Democrats and the
Greens. Immediately after its formation, the Red-Green minority coalition
recognized "Palestine."
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