When Mackenzie Fraiser’s technology teacher assigned the class a PowerPoint project called “All About Me” in February, the Somerset Academy sixth-grader wanted to include a slide with one of her ...

A new directive from Oklahoma’s top education official requires all public schools to teach the Bible and the Ten Commandments. It comes weeks after Louisiana mandated the display of the Ten ...

The Bible has a deep history in American classrooms, but the state’s provocative superintendent wants to broadly expand its influence. By Sarah Mervosh and Ruth Graham Sarah Mervosh reports on ...

The policy is criticized by teachers unions and religious freedom groups. Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters released guidelines on the state's controversial Bible mandate in public schools on ...

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said that letting Oklahoma public school educators teach the Bible is a “slippery slope” if the teachers “may not be believers” themselves. Mullin, who sits ...

Educators in Oklahoma are refusing a state order to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans, setting up an inevitable showdown with the start of the school year just weeks away. Ryan Walters, ...

As an English professor with a divinity school degree and a deep love for the Bible, I have for 20 years taught a college class that’s now called Reading the Bible. So when I read news stories like ...

For some Christians, the King James Version of the Bible is like pop music: They love the beat but can't understand some of the lyrics. "The King James Bible can sound stilted with its 'thees' and ...

Oklahoma educators who refuse to teach students about the Bible could lose their teaching license, Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters said in an interview with NBC News on Friday.