Especially for Teachers
Teachers Under Fire
Is Blood Ever Blue? Science Teachers Want to Know!
Teachers Gone Wild

Resources (documents)

Bill Foster’s Letter
The Grubbs and Gibbs Memorandum: Require A Religious Reading of the Evolutionary Record in Public Schools

Education and Public Science: Creationism, Intelligent Design, Home Schooling
The Myers - Rue Debate And Why They Had to Taser Me
The Bible-Thumping Grinch […]

I’ve never done this myself, but I’ve been thinking it and talking about it for a long time:

“An inspired professor at University of Washington-Bothell, Martha Groom, made an interesting pedagogical experiment. Instead of vilifying Wikipedia as some academics are prone to do, she assigned the students enrolled in her environmental history course to contribute articles. […]

Larry Moran has written a post in which he presents an opposite view of what I stated here. My statements merely echo those of the National Center for Science Education, the US. Supreme Court, and others because I believe that the “Teaching of the Controversy” should not be allowed in public school science classrooms. […]

It has become axiomatic that US students are behind students in other countries in math and science, a decreasing number of students engage in these subjects in school, and an insufficient number of US students are graduating with studies in these areas to meet demand.
However, The Urban Institute, a non-partisan think tank with no obvious […]

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The following is an abstract from an article by Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education called “WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE “TEACH THE CONTROVERSY” SLOGAN?” available here.
Teachers are often exhorted by creationists to “teach the controversy.” Although such encouragement sounds on the surface like a […]

According to Randy Moore, who is possibly the nation’s leading expert on law and practice of the Evolution/Creationism struggle:
According to reports from 1,441 undergraduate students at a large, public American university, most high-school biology teachers teach evolution. Approximately 25% of students who attended public schools report that their biology teachers also taught creationism, despite the […]

The Following is a large excerpt from an editorial by Jason Wiles of McGill University and Anila Asghar of Johns Hopkins University, published in the McGill Journal of Education, and introducing a special issue on the teaching of evolution. News of this comes to us from the National Center for Science Education, and the […]

Minnetonka School Board Candidate William Wenmark. His campaign site is here.
Creationist School Board William H. Wenmark up for re-election in Minnetonka. Minnetonkians, please GET OUT THE VOTE!
Minnetonka is a large and sprawling lake, a lovely little town, and a pretty darn good school district west of Minneapolis. But the story […]

Ave , Maria, Florida. “Ave Maria officials have decided it’s time to set the record straight. There’s not going to be a special cable provider that doesn’t carry X-rated channels. The town isn’t going to be a Catholic utopia, where only practicing Catholics are welcome. And no one is dictating what can or, […]

From the Calgary Herald:
In recent years, creationists have become more aggressive in their attempts to undermine science education. The movement, originating in the U.S., has gained political support in Great Britain and Canada.
The Alberta government has been quietly increasing funding to faith schools — to 100 per cent in the case of “alternative” programs — […]

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is offering a new course on homemaking. Only women are allowed to take the course.
Apparently one of the topics covered in the course relates to equipping the students to do home schooling.
Read all about it at Aetiology.

A multi-institutional consortium including Duke University has created startlingly crisp 3-D microscopic views of tiny mouse brains — unveiled layer by layer — by extending the capabilities of conventional magnetic resonance imaging.
Story and links here.

Academics tend to be liberal, this we all know. But it is interesting to contemplate the finer details of this association. When we do so, we discover some interesting differences among different kinds of academics, and one group in particular — “Health Scientists” — can be singled out as bucking the trend. […]

This is from Alternet:
In mid-August, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed something called the “Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act” into law. Although the new law has an innocuous-sounding title, it’s really a ticking time-bomb, opponents say.
The law requires every public school in the state to adopt a policy guaranteeing students’ right to religious expression. It mandates that […]

The human rights monitoring Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe approved (48-25 vote) a report criticizing creationism, and determining that teaching creationism in schools potentially sacrifices chidlren’s education by imposing religious dogma.Castle, Stephen. “European lawmakers condemn efforts to teach creationism. International Herald Tribune.

European lawmakers condemn efforts to teach creationism
The vote […]