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Associated Press
January 17, 2013
AUSTIN - A study says 60 public school districts across Texas
now offer courses on the Bible. But at least a third aren't meeting state
requirements to be unbiased and academically and legally sound.
Written by Southern Methodist University Professor Mark Chancey, the study
found that many districts' courses favor conservative Protestant interpretations
of the Bible.
Many also present "problematic treatment of Judaism" and promote
"pseudo-scholarship" on science and U.S. history.
Chancey presented the study Wednesday. He completed it for the Texas Freedom
Network, which monitors the State Board of Education from a progressive
perspective.
Statewide, 57 districts and three charter schools offered elective courses
on the Bible during the 2011-2012 school year.
Chancey listed 11 of them as having the most-successful classes, but
concluded that 20 were the "most problematic courses."