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The Bible and Public Schools Report On (NCBCPS) A REPORT BY MARK A. CHANCEY FOR THE TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND TABLE OF CONTENTS About the Author ..................................................................................................................1 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................2 Overview of the Curriculum .................................................................................................4 The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools (NCBCPS) ...........................6 Which Bible in HistoryHistory and Literature? ...............................................................................8 The Bible as the Inspired Word of God..............................................................................10 The Bible as History, the Preservation of the Bible ..........................................................11 The Bible and Science........................................................................................................16 America as a Christian Nation...........................................................................................18 Other Issues of Academic Quality and Reliability.............................................................21 The Curriculum’s Use of Sources ......................................................................................24 Appendix I: The Curriculum, Its Sources, and Unexplained Similarities in Wording .................................................................................28 THE BIBLE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1 About the Author Dr. Mark A. Chancey teaches biblical studies in the Department of Religious Studies in Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He attended the University of Georgia, where he earned a B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Religion (1990) and an M.A. in Religion (1992), and Duke University, where he received a Ph.D. in Religion with a focus in New Testament studies and early Judaism (1999). His research interests include the Gospels, the Historical Jesus, archaeology and the Bible, and the political and social history of Palestine during the Roman period. He is a member of the Society for Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical Association, the American Academy of Religion, and the American Schools for Oriental Research. THE BIBLE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS 2 INTRODUCTION n May 2005, Texas Freedom Network provided advisor.” Some passages and assignments reflect me with a copy of the curriculum of the sensitivity to the differences between Judaism and INational Council on Bible Curriculum in Christianity. Page 134, for example, recommends Public Schools (NCBCPS), The Bible in History studying the Psalms from a Jewish point of view, and Literature (Ablu(Ablu Publishing,Publishing, 2005),2005), toto evaluateevaluate and on at least three different occasions the text whether it is nonsectarian in nature and thus recommends consulting a Jewish person about appropriate for public school usage and also to Jewish beliefs and practices (pp. 108, 115, 147). The assess its overall quality. The contents of the book sometimes adopts a literary approach, with an curriculum are apparently not widely known, and I emphasis on familiarity with well-known biblical was unable to locate any other lengthy and detailed stories and passages. In both the curriculum and review of it by a biblical scholar. other NCBCPS materials, teachers are urged not to impose religious beliefs upon their students. I write from the perspective of someone who is a proud product of public schools and who has In my professional judgment as a biblical fond memories of reading Job and Genesis in my scholar, however, this curriculum on the whole is high school English class. I was first introduced a sectarian document, and I cannot recommend to the academic study of the Bible at a public it for usage in a public school setting. It attempts institution, the University of Georgia, and am a to persuade students to adopt views that are held staunch supporter of public schools. I am also a primarily within certain conservative Protestant professional educator who specializes in biblical circles but not within the scholarly community, studies and a person of faith who currently attends and it presents Christian faith claims as history: a United Methodist Church. This background and my experiences inform my belief that Bible courses The Bible is explicitly characterized as inspired by taught in a nonsectarian manner by academically God. qualified teachers can be an enriching part of a public education. Discussions of science are based on the claims of biblical creationists. The courts have clearly ruled that public school courses on the Bible, when taught Jesus is presented as fulfilling “Old Testament” from a nonsectarian perspective, are legal and prophecy. appropriate.1 The NCBCPS curriculum does reflect occasional efforts to be nonsectarian. It nowhere Archaeological findings are cited as support for explicitly urges students to become Christians, and claims of the Bible’s complete historical accuracy. a book enclosed on CD-ROM offers perspectives from multiple religious traditions.2 Page 13 of the Furthermore, much of the course appears printed curriculum advises, “As you think about designed to persuade students and teachers that the various interpretations of scripture, it is often America is a distinctively Christian nation — an helpful to discuss them with your parents and/or agenda publicly embraced by many of the members your family’s pastor, priest, rabbi, or other spiritual of NCBCPS’s Board of Advisors and endorsers. THE BIBLE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS 3 The issue at stake here is not whether individuals unreasonable to expect teachers without advanced or groups should hold such beliefs, but whether training in biblical studies to recognize all of this such positions should be presented as fact in a curriculum’s errors — but it is not unreasonable to public school setting. The obvious answer — both expect a curriculum to be free of them. constitutionally and ethically — is “No.” The curriculum costs $150 if purchased from Many of the sources the curriculum uses are the Council’s Web site, $169.99 from Amazon.com. nonacademic in nature. The curriculum includes It is considerably more expensive than many several bibliographies of scholarly books that textbooks on the market.4 serve as recommended readings but often reflects little familiarity with the sources themselves.3 On multiple occasions, it directs teachers and students to resources and Web sites that explicitly advocate sectarian claims — though the readers of the curriculum might not realize this until they consult those resources. The curriculum also does not sufficiently make clear its dependence on its sources. In fact, it often cites no sources at all. When the curriculum does cite secondary sources, it does not explicitly state when it, in effect, reproduces them on a word- for-word level. Such verbal similarities extend for lines, paragraphs, and even pages at a time. In one unit, 20 pages are virtually identical in wording to uncited articles posted online. All in all, the wording of nearly 100 pages of the curriculum — approximately a third of the book — is identical or nearly identical to the wordings of other publications, many of them not cited. In addition, the curriculum contains numerous factual errors and vastly oversimplified (some might say misleading) presentations of complex issues. Many of these problems are reproduced from the curriculum’s sources, though others seem to have been introduced by its authors. A casual perusal might not uncover these problems, but a detailed study makes them clear. It would be THE BIBLE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS 4 OVERVIEW OF THE CURRICULUM ccording to one report, the curriculum is indoctrination of students. The central approach based on a course taught in the 1950’s in of the class is simply to study the Bible as a the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) school foundation document of society, and that approach A 5 district. The Web site of the NCBCPS claims is altogether appropriate in a comprehensive that it is used in 308 school districts in 36 states, program of secular education.”9 Taken at face including 14 districts in Louisiana, and that more value, these goals are all quite laudable. than 175,000 students have taken courses utilizing it.6 A May 1, 2005, Dallas Morning News article The 2005 edition of the curriculum appears to reported that an estimated 49 school districts in be a teacher’s guide rather than a student textbook. Texas have adopted the NCBCPS curriculum;7 by It is designed for a two-semester course and early July, the Council’s Web site claimed 52 Texas consists of eighteen units, each outlining multiple districts. The Council’s president has said that lessons: an introductory chapter, nine units on 1,000 high schools from Alaska to Florida use the the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament, one unit on curriculum and that it has been accepted by 92 the Dead Sea Scrolls and archaeology, one on the percent of the school boards that have considered “Inter-Testamental Period” [sic], four units on the it.8 These numbers cannot be verified because the New Testament, one on “The Bible in History,” Council has apparently not publicly released a list and one on “Biblical Art.”10 It includes lesson of districts that have adopted the curriculum. plans; background material apparently intended for lecture content;
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