education

Is your child struggling in school or could do better? A straighforward and practical way to help your children onto the path of academic success, Insha Allah, is offered with these brief but effective 25 tips. 

In this challenging society, we as Muslim parents need to bring ourselves closer to our children through education and nurturing. The best teacher a child can have is his or her own parent.

Public school teachers can range from friendly and sympathetic to the needs of your Muslim child, to hostile. While most fall in the former category, it is critical that Muslim parents learn how to work with their children's teachers for a better public school experience for their kids. 

The Muslim community must plan for the future, and this implies taking up positions in a wide array of fields from where to project a positive intellectual, economic and political impact on our community, and society as a whole. 

Over one million children are homeschooled in the U.S., and it is an option more parents are pursuing, including Muslim parents. Here are some of the reasons why they choose to educate their children at home, as well as laws and resources for those who would also like to do so. 

Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, said "A father can give his son nothing better than a good education". There are numerous advantages for parents both in this world and in the hereafter, when they provide proper Islamic education to their children.

There are a number of concerns, myths, and objections that are raised vis-a-vis Islamic schools. These usually focus on whether or not they offer adequate academics, and how Muslim children will relate to non-Muslims in the long run. This article seeks to address these concerns.