Bible Literacy Project News
Education Week (6/1/2006)
College Professors Say Bible Literacy Gives Students an Edge
June 1, 2006
High school students should learn about the Bible to be prepared
for the kind of analysis of classic and contemporary literature that
college English professors expect them to undertake, a report says.
Nearly all of the three dozen English professors surveyed from
Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, and other top U.S. universities
agreed that students who have a basic understanding of the Bible
fare better academically than those who don’t.“The Bible is not only
a sacred scripture to millions of Americans,” explained the report’s
author, Marie Wachlin, who has studied high school students’ Bible
literacy. “It is also arguably, as one professor put it, the most
influential text in all of Western culture.”
Kathleen Kennedy Manzo
Education Week (6/7/2006)
Bible Literacy
June 7, 2006
High school students should learn about the Bible to be prepared
for the kind of analysis of classic and contemporary literature that
college English professors expect them to undertake, a report says.
Nearly all of the three dozen English professors surveyed from
Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, and other top U.S. universities
agreed that students who have a basic understanding of the Bible
fare better academically than those who don’t. “The Bible is not
only a sacred scripture to millions of Americans,” explained the
report’s author, Marie Wachlin, who has studied high school
students’ Bible literacy. “It is also arguably, as one professor put
it, the most influential text in all of Western culture.”
Kathleen Kennedy Manzo
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