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Algeria: The
Education of Algiers - Gender
Photo:
Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times
A
class at the Mohammad Al Said Hamdeen high school in Algiers. After decades of
forced Arabization, a movement has begun to reintroduce the study of subjects
thought to offer more employable skills to students.....
Algeria
won independence from France in 1962 and in an effort to forge a national
identity free of Western influences, the school system adopted a new
curriculum, including the teaching of Arabic, Islamic law, and the study of the
Koran....
The
Algerian government also sought to return to gender-mixed classes....
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