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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 172 min read
Oklahoma school leaders pray for state superintendent to shut up and leave them alone
Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters was once a high school history teacher, but seems to have forgotten about the First Amendment's rule...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 231 min read
Bible stories shouldn't be 'forbidden fruit'
Students won't understand what they read if they're not familiar with the Bible, mythology, history and literature.
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 291 min read
A Bible in every classroom
Oklahoma's public school teachers have been ordered to use the Bible in lessons on "history, civilization, ethics, comparative religion,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 212 min read
Bible stories should be cultural literacy, not forbidden fruit
Teaching students about religion is fine in public schools, writes Natalie Wexler. "Inculcating specific religious beliefs" is not....
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 3, 20231 min read
Good Book or bad book? Bible is challenged in Utah
The Bible is off the shelves at elementary and middle-school libraries in a suburban Utah district, after a parent's complaint, writes...
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