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By: Sundi

Sundi — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:23:05 +0000

I am so glad to see this blog sight …I love Bob Jones Textbooks and I have 2 boys that started school on public school!! ahhhh big mistake I am going to bobjones this fall AS a matter of fact we have already started and the boys are really thriving they do not feel so ” assembly linish” if that is even a word I despise the public schools and there indoctrination of our kids !!! GOD BLESS BOB JONES UNIVERSITY and all they offfer Christians!

By: Tracie Marshburn

Tracie Marshburn — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:41:51 +0000

:roll:What’s the big deal? I’m a homeschool mom, and I pull resources from several different places. I am a christian, and although I don’t use BJU for everything, I have seen that it is a great curriculum. I personally love that fact that it includes christian influences in all of their materials. What exactly made anyone so shocked that Bob Jones Math FROM Bob Jones University would actually have christan comments in it!!? Hello! It is a christian school! Anyway, I say, if you like it buy it; if you don’t, use another curriculum and get over it.

By: momtoast

momtoast — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:55:01 +0000

It’s mostly the same information (with the exception of science and history text books, which would probably deviate from what the state requires to be in them) because they have to fulfill certain state requirements. The Christian textbooks may have added information, but I don’t see how that would put students behind . . .

I’m sure there have been independant studies (we don’t have resources here to conduct them ourselves) and though they were all in Christian schools it was not all Christian publishers. Christians schools have been using secular textbooks, particularly in high school, for some time now. (In fact, our last ad campaign waged war against that practice.)

By: to Give an Answer

to Give an Answer — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:14:19 +0000

Agreed. I would be interested in the results of a more definitively objective study (i.e. not conducted by BJU Press) that includes secular texts.

By: Blog Jones

Blog Jones — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:59:07 +0000

Ah, well then. I thought that BJU Press might have been better, but I didn’t want to say without evidence. Glad to hear it.

Although, to be fair to the author of the piece I linked, the study was A) conducted by BJU Press and B) appears to only cover Christian schools using Christian publishers. Going only by that study, BJU’s curriculum might be a big fish in a little pond, unless I’m misunderstanding the information I have.

It’d be nice if some other organization–perhaps the American Association of Christian Schools–would do an independent study that would also include secular textbooks.

By: momtoast

momtoast — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:30:06 +0000

It’s not true. We’ve done research ourselves, and had a third party check our results. BJU math curriculum gives students the same or better education than other textbooks. Check out www.hightestscores.com to learn more. Anyway, Christian schools tend to get better test scores than secular schools anyway due to other factors (such as class size and the loving care of the teacher). I don’t think test scores should be what we judge on, but as far as ‘getting left behind’ it shows that the students know as much or more as those using other textbooks.

Sorry for the short rant. I work at BJU Press.