Hoping to push a wide array of digital content and teaching tools to public schools, the Texas Education Agency has cut a deal with a division of The New York Times for an electronic curriculum portal and searchable access to the newspaper’s content since 1851.

A student who wanted to write a paper on the Gettysburg address could instantly pull up not only the speech text but also the paper’s story on the event. For modern content, students could access stories, related multimedia content and source documents amassed and scanned by reporters but never previously published, TEA officials ...

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