Disciplines
American Studies | Public History
Abstract
For the last twenty years, as the Bronx African American History Project has taken its research findings into educational institutions as well as community organizations, I have spoken at or done teacher training in at least thirty schools in the Bronx, and been invited to quite a few schools outside the borough, including Stuyvesant High School. In doing this, one of the things that leaped out at me was not only the growing number of Muslim students in New York City Public Schools, but the number of Muslim students winning academic awards at those schools, particularly becoming class valedictorians and salutatorians. This experience, as it turns out, has been reinforced by my experience at Fordham where the growing number of Muslim students in my classes, many of them outstanding students, has been one of the biggest differences between what Fordham University was like twenty years ago, and what Fordham is like now.
Recommended Citation
Naison, Mark, "The Brilliant Muslim Students Transforming Educational Institutions In New York City and the Nation" (2025). Occasional Essays. 43.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/baahp_essays/43
