City University in London has been accused of discrimination by a group of Muslim students after it started locking a room used for Friday prayers.

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It also tested meals on a small group of students, gathering feedback and changing the menu accordingly.

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Sometimes, for example, it makes sense to group Ursetta's kindergarten students with first-graders working on the same subject.

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While my years as a debate coach taught me that collaborative learning often enables slow or recalcitrant learners to hide behind the drive and discipline of top achievers in a group, it also elicits a need to succeed in students whose learning style requires more hands-on experiences.

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While at UCLA, I was fortunate to work with a group of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) students who took it upon themselves to create a tutoring and mentoring program for NHPI high school youth in Los Angeles called PIER (Pacific Islander Education and Retention).

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"It changes the dynamic when there's a group of students who have something in common that other students don't share, " says Dean Kathleen A. Getz.

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It turns out that the culprits were a group of high school students, say the LAPD.

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And it could be a statement or question from any high school group of students.

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The real battle, it became clear this week, will be over another group of immigrants: students.

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The group said it had also secured a public meeting with the principal, Anton Muscatelli, where students and staff can address their worries.

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But Wendy Piatt, the group's director general, said it was "simply not true", as the proportion of state-school students at Russell Group universities had risen by 9% since 1997.

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The group sessions are presided over by a supervisory teacher whose role it is to promote interaction and guide the students through a range of topics and modes of discussion.

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