July 20, Mark Chancey, professor of religious studies at SMU Dallas, for a piece critical of proposed Texas school curriculum that infuses Bible teaching. Published in the San Antonio Express-News under the heading Proposed new Texas curriculum plays religious favorites: https://tinyurl.com/mttj6ms7
As Texas neighbors draw the spotlight for increasing the Bible’s place in public schools — a new Louisiana law requires display of the Ten Commandments in every classroom and Oklahoma’s state superintendent has declared that every teacher “will be teaching from the Bible” — the Lone Star State is quietly pursuing its own strategy to the same end.
The State Board of Education is considering a new language arts and reading curriculum for kindergarten through fifth grade called Open Education Resources that includes a surprising amount of biblical content, much of it promoting some religious views over others.
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