A Guide to the Gulen Movement's Activities in the US

  • For charter school parents
  • SITE INDEX
  • Who is Fethullah Gulen and what is the Gulen Movement?
  • Goals of the Gulen Movement
  • List of US schools
  • Every continent but Antarctica
  • Every continent but Antarctica: the numbers
  • Every continent but Antarctica: country by country
  • Every continent but antarctica: news articles & links
  • Gulen charter school information
  • Advice for concerned parents
  • Gulenist non-profits
    • Disclosure statement
  • Gulenist corporations
  • Gulenist websites
  • Gulenist media & publications
  • News - Gulen schools
  • News - Gulen Movement
  • News - charter regulation
  • Turkic American Alliance member organizations
  • Accord Institute for Education Research
  • Gulenist competitions
  • GENIUS Olympiad
  • I-SWEEEP 3E Sustainable Future Challenge
  • ISWEEEP 2011: Analysis of Bias
  • ISWEEEP 2011: Winners from Gulen schools
  • Olympiad irregularities
  • Private Gulen schools
  • Are Gulen schools secular?
  • Gulen schools: "philanthropy" & "self-sacrifice"?
  • Turkey 101
  • Gulen and the AKP
  • New power struggle emerging in Turkey
  • Rand Corporation and Gulen
  • MSNBC Turkish affiliate news article: Ankara University Professor claimed CIA-Gulen connection
  • 3 quotes from Gulen's ally
  • Gulen, Kimse Yok Mu and Hamas
  • Two faces
  • Gulen and Saparmurat Niyazov
  • Statements by Ex-Gulenists
  • Life in a Gulen dorm in Turkey
  • Repression in the Name of Tolerance
  • More Repression, Turkey, and the Gulen Movement
  • Repression Part 3: Mar-Nov 2011
  • Imam's Army Epilogue by Ahmet Sik
  • Academia - concerns about objectivity
  • A propagandist thesis
  • The Interfaith Dialog Bubble
  • Ethics concerns: public officials' Turkey trips
  • Congressional Turkey trips
  • Elected officials who went on Gulenist Turkey trips
  • Why Bill Clinton mentioned Gulen at the TCCNY dinner
  • Winning over Texas politicians
  • Gulenist state resolutions
  • How the Gulen Movement has manipulated the US press
  • Covering their tracks
  • [Fill in the blank] Dialogue Society
  • "Fantastically disorganized"?
  • Gulen v. Chertoff: Contradictions
  • Turkish exceptionalism
  • Name symbolism in the Gulen Movement
  • Psychology of Belief
  • Brief Updates
  • Where can I learn more?

Where can I learn more?


Our companion site has more detailed information on the publicly funded Gulen charter schools in the United States.  Many of the pages list connections between the schools and the Gulen Movement, refuting denials that school administrators have made of their affiliation.

We post notification of updates to all our sites, as well as other brief updates, here:  http://twitter.com/CASILIPS

This slideshare presentation has detailed information on the Cosmos Foundation schools (Harmony Science Academy, etc):
www.slideshare.net/CASILIPS/rapid-expansion-harmony

Here is the link to another slideshare presentation entitled "Concept Schools - Success in Education or Success in Marketing?"  It's about the Gulen charter schools in the Midwest, run by Concept Schools, including Chicago Math and Science Academy and the Horizon Science Academy chain.
http://www.slideshare.net/CASILIPS/concept-schools-success-in-education-or-success-in-marketing

The European press has been far more bold than the US media at reporting on the Gulen Movement, at stating unequivocally that it is connected to certain schools, and at discussing the concerns about it.  Some articles have been collected here, and more will be added:
http://gulenforeignmedia.weebly.com

Other useful sources:

Citizens in the Netherlands are also concerned about the Gulen Movement, which is very active in that country.  An excellent source of information can be found at   http://notdeleted.net/

Also, it is recommended to follow notdeleted and sharonoak on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/notdeleted
http://twitter.com/#!/sharonoak

This site has inside information relating to hiring practices and treatment of teachers in US Gulen charter schools that cannot be found anywhere else:
http://www.charterschoolwatchdog.com/
The pages showing internal school emails of administrators are particularly worth viewing.

Professor Ed Fuller, an education researcher, has performed some very interesting analyses relating to education, some on Gulen charter schools in Texas.  Here are links to some excellent blog posts on the Harmony Public Schools:
http://fullerlook.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/harmony-charter-school-graduation-rates-fact-or-fiction/
http://fullerlook.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/the-benefits-of-a-good-pr-machine-and-the-real-reason-for-charters/

This meticulous blogger does excellent research on charter schools, including a large amount of material on the Gulen schools:
http://charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com/

The Wikispaces website on "Miracle schools" uses hard data to examine hyperbole about schools (Newsweek list of "Miracle schools" 2011):
http://miracleschools.wikispaces.com/
Some of the schools analyzed there are Gulen charter schools.

Blog started by parent of former students at Gulen charter school:
http://allthefactsplease.weebly.com/bulletin-board.html