If Texas links state reading tests to a state reading list, teachers will be motivated to focus on content, not isolated skills.

Good teachers can give students the tools to read, understand and appreciate classic books.

Students learn lots of things they'll probably never use in later life, but being knowledgeable is very useful.

Texas' board of education has narrowly approved a new K-5 curriculum that includes Bible stories , reports Shaun Rabb for Fox News....

Teaching students about religion is fine in public schools, writes Natalie Wexler. "Inculcating specific religious beliefs" is not....

Texas will add Bible stories and religious history to its K-5 reading curriculum.