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JERUSALEM — When the bell rings at Jerusalem's Hand in Hand school, you hear something that's not common in Israel: the sound of young people's voices rising together in laughter and conversation in ...

It’s no accident that in undertaking improvements to its school system, the Ministry of Education in this small, oil-rich Persian Gulf country has made the most progress so far with an initiative to ...

A 6-year-old student runs into Ala Hatib’s office at the Jerusalem Bilingual School to tell the principal that he hurt his back, with half the sentence in Hebrew, half in Arabic. Hatib chuckles at the ...

Sixty-four percent of Arab American students say their parents don't fully understand the U.S. school system. That finding, from my recent nationwide survey of 411 Arab American students and ...