Browsing Tag: Curriculum

Sikh Research Institute announces the release of the first phase of Sojhi online today.

Many organizations including Punjabi American Heritage Society of Yuba City and Sikh Council of Central Valley whole heartedly backed the efforts of Assemblyman Logue and Prof Bindra.

Siri Pritham Kaur's presence testifying in front of the California Board of Higher Education in Sacramento is a testament to the legacy of Siri Singh Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa (Yogiji) her spiritual teacher. This moment in history is needed and hopefully will evolve into other state's University World Religion programs.

She told me how grateful she was that the Coalition was doing these presentations and creating teacher-friendly materials. She knew she had “come to the right place,” and thanked me for spending time with her students.

We may never understand what kind of hate and anger drives a person to take the life of another, but we know it must stop. There is no room for hate crimes in any society,....

California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill this past weekend which significantly raises hopes that public school children will learn about Sikhs in California.

According to the school board, only 30 per cent of kids who go to school in Morinville identify themselves as Catholic. That means 70 per cent of the students in the community, a significant majority, are compelled to go to a Catholic school even though they are non-Catholics. The school division does allow children to be exempted from formal religion classes, but nonetheless, Catholicism necessarily pervades the curriculum and the ethos of the school.