{"id":9593,"date":"2011-03-17T16:46:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T16:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/03\/17\/antievolution-bill-in-tennesse\/"},"modified":"2011-03-17T16:46:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T16:46:45","slug":"antievolution-bill-in-tennesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/antievolution-bill-in-tennesse\/","title":{"rendered":"Antievolution bill in Tennessee progresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Tennessee&#8217;s House Bill 368 was passed on a 9-4 vote, with no testimony or discussion, at the House General Subcommittee of Education meeting on March 16, 2011. A version of the &#8220;academic freedom&#8221; antievolution bill, HB 368 would, if enacted, require state and local educational authorities to &#8220;assist teachers to find effective ways to present the science curriculum as it addresses scientific controversies&#8221; and permit teachers to &#8220;help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught.&#8221; The only examples provided of &#8220;controversial&#8221; theories are &#8220;biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2011\/03\/antievolution-bill-tennessee-progresses-006545\">More at NCSE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee&#8217;s House Bill 368 was passed on a 9-4 vote, with no testimony or discussion, at the House General Subcommittee of Education meeting on March 16, 2011. A version of the &#8220;academic freedom&#8221; antievolution bill, HB 368 would, if enacted, require state and local educational authorities to &#8220;assist teachers to find effective ways to present &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/antievolution-bill-in-tennesse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antievolution bill in Tennessee progresses<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2uJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}