Texas Unveils ‘Classical’ Education Curricula Based on Texas and American Exceptionalism

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) unveiled a “classical” curricula on May 29 that incorporates Texas and American exceptionalism into reading and math lessons for school children. Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath told The Epoch Times that TEA used a variety of resources, including textbooks, to create about 3,000 lessons so far. The traditional model curricula pulls from history, civics, and religion. Classics such as C.S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and works from Shakespeare are part of the reading lessons. Children developing reading skills will learn vocabulary to accompany reading passages concerning a variety of topics, including Greek and Roman mythology, the Crusades, the Magna Carta, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and the Holocaust....