Publication Date
2025
Abstract
In November 2024, after months of heated public debate, Texas approved new English language arts reading lessons for public elementary schools (kindergarten through fifth grade) that devote notably more attention to the Bible than to other religious texts and to the Christian tradition than to other religions. This article describes the controversy over these lessons and provides examples of the various ways in which they privilege Christianity over other traditions.
Document Type
Article
Keywords
public education, Texas, religion in the curriculum, Bible, Christian nationalism
Disciplines
Curriculum and Instruction | Religion
Part of
Religion & Education
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Rights
Taylor and Francis open access
Source
Religion & Education
Language
English
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Chancey, Mark, "Religious Bias and Texas’s Bluebonnet Learning English Language Arts Lessons" (2025). Religious Studies Research. 5.
https://scholar.smu.edu/religious_studies_research/5
