The State Board of Education will vote on incorporating more Christian stories into public classrooms as well as on deemphasizing race and cultural diversity in history lessons.

The SBOE will hold a final vote Friday on incorporating more Christian stories into classrooms and deemphasizing race and ...

The State Board of Education will hold a final vote Friday on incorporating more Christian stories into classrooms and deemphasizing race and cultural diversity in history lessons.

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On America’s 250th anniversary, Bryan Stevenson, a civil rights lawyer and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, looks toward the work that is ahead for the country.

Texas' State Board of Education has preliminarily approved a sweeping social studies rewrite and a statewide reading list ...

Texas is on the verge of requiring its more than 5 million public school students to study Bible stories, as the state ...

After days of testimony and debate, the State Board of Education approved two controversial measures that require Bible readings in public schools and overhaul social studies curricula.

Where children live and what their household’s socioeconomic status is leaves a mark on their brains, a new study in Science finds. The results suggest that the fewer opportunities a child’s zip code ...

A new proposal would include Bible stories in required reading lists for more than 5 million public school students in Texas.