This is a qualitative study of four Muslim parents whose ESL children attend an Islamic private school in the American Southwest. The study investigates the preparedness of these Muslim ESL students to meet the Common Core State Standards-based assessments. The focus of the stud…
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Living in an Islamophobic context where 49 percent of Americans polled in a 2010 ABC News Poll held an unfavorable view of Islam (Ali, Clifton, Duss, Fang, Keyes, & Shakir, 2011), visible American Muslims, particularly hijabi women and girls, experience a host of challenges. Rec…
Literature of educational leadership, particularly faith-based school leadership, often fails to represent the perspectives of women. Women responsible for leading American Islamic schools face an unparalleled experience due to the intersectionalities of gender, religion, race a…
Teacher retention is a concern in all educational sectors in America. It is of special importance to Islamic schools, which tend to lack the resources necessary in recruiting and training new teachers. This dissertation addressed this problem in full-time Islamic schools in New …
School choice is a topic that has been widely examined in the literature. One aspect of school choice that has interested researchers is what motivates parents to choose specific schools for their children. The research clearly indicates that academic considerations are the prim…
The Muslim community in Nashville established an Islamic school in 1996. The current school can accommodate students from kindergarten to sixth grade. The Kurds, numbering more than 10,000, started their own quest to establish a full-time Islamic school in 2006. Reviewing the li…
As the most populous Muslim country in the world, Indonesia has a unique experience in dealing with Islamic education, a system that was established years before the country's independence. This dissertation focuses on the development of Indonesian Islamic schools in facing the …