A special committee, set up through the National Conference of Christians and Jews, reported today that religion can and should be taught in the public schools. It urged provisions for better textbooks and teacher preparation to do it. The committee, which made the study in the schools of Pittsburgh, said there was a serious deficiency in the treatment of religion in the textbooks currently used in the courses on United States and world history.
Schools need to clarify their “responsibility for dealing with the total cultural heritage, of which religious values are an integral part,” said the report, the product of an intensive two-year study.
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