Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Update to the post below. Rashid Khalidi will NOT be slated to teach a class on Middle East issues to NYC public school teachers.
LGF: Rashid Khalidi Dropped from Teaching Program
The department's decision came hours after a report appeared in The New York Sun revealing that the professor, Rashid Khalidi, would be one of the Columbia faculty members instructing the city's teachers on how to teach students about the history, culture, and politics of the Middle East.
"Considering his past statements, Rashid Khalidi should not have been included in a program that provided professional development for DOE teachers and he won't be participating in the future," Chancellor Joel Klein's press secretary, Jerry Russo, said in a statement sent via e-mail to the Sun yesterday evening.
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