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"'Teach the Controversy' Comes to Climate Science"
Mark McCaffrey"A flurry of bills that critics say would allow climate change denial to be taught in public schools have been moving through state legislatures throughout the United States," reported ClimateWire (March 6, 2013). Citing laws in place in Louisiana and Tennessee, as…
Duane T. Gish
Duane T. Gish
Duane T. Gish dies
"Toward a Climate & Energy Literate Society"
A new report issued by the National Center for Science Education, "Toward a Climate & Energy Literate Society" (PDF) offers recommendations for improving climate and energy literacy in the United States over the course of the next decade. As NCSE's Mark McCaffrey remarked in a March 4, 2013,…
A preview of The Flooded Earth
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Peter D. Ward's The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps (Basic Books, 2010). The preview consists of the beginning of chapter 8, "Stopping Catastrophic Sea Rise," in which Ward concludes "this not overly cheerful book with some…
Summit: "Americans Illiterate About Climate Change--But Want to Know More"
Experts from around the nation meet to tackle climate literacy "We have lots of information about climate change, but much of it is falling on deaf ears," says Mark McCaffrey, NCSE policy director. "That's because 90% of Americans admit they're not very well informed about climate change…
Zack Kopplin on Bill Moyers
Zack KopplinZack Kopplin, the young activist behind the initiative to repeal Louisiana's antievolution law and the effort to expose the funding of creationism through vouchers-for-private-schools schemes nationally, was interviewed on Moyers and Company — and the segment is now…
NCSE's Branch at DeSmogBlog
What is the source of the antiscience bills that have been infesting statehouses around the country? In "Not Smart, But Not ALEC Either," posted on DeSmogBlog (February 28, 2013), NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch explains that although the American Legislative Exchange Council is sometimes…
RNCSE 33:1 now on-line
NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on-line. The issue — volume 33, number 1 — features Alexander John Werth's "An Evolutionary Focus Improves Students' Understanding of All Biology." For his regular People and…
Antiscience bill dies in Arizona
Arizona's Senate Bill 1213 died on February 22, 2013, when the deadline for Senate bills to be heard in their Senate committees passed. A typical instance of the "academic freedom" strategy for undermining the integrity of science education, SB 1213 specifically targeted "biological evolution, the…

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