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NCSE's Newton on creationism and climate change denial
"What do creationists and climate change deniers have in common?" asks NCSE's Steven Newton, writing in the May 2012 issue of the American Geoscience Institute's magazine, Earth. "The answer to the riddle is that creationists and climate change deniers have a lot in common — most especially in…
Help wanted: climate
NCSE is seeking to hire a second staff member to work on its new climate change initiative, which seeks to defend and support the teaching of climate change. Duties will include: counseling teachers, administrators, parents, and other concerned citizens facing challenges to climate change…
Evolution coming early to England
Evolution is to be added to the primary national curriculum in England, gratifying scientists and educators who have been campaigning for its addition over the last three years. In 2009, the British Humanist Association coordinated a letter (PDF) from top scientists and science educators in…
RNCSE 32:3 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 32, number 3 — is a special book review issue, with a double helping of reviews of books on the evolutionary sciences. For his regular People and…
Thinking Evolutionarily
How can evolution be integrated throughout life science education? Thinking Evolutionarily, a new publication from the National Research Council and the National Academy of Sciences, reports on a recent meeting that addressed this vital question. According to the National Academy Press's…
Master Educator, Young Activist, Honored By NCSE
Friend of Darwin award recognizes lifetime evolution educator, young grassroots activist   It's an age-old story—the master and the newcomer. The expert who has devoted decades to keeping students on the right path. And the new kid who throws himself into the battle for truth,…
Anti-Evolution and Anti-Climate Science Legislation Scorecard: 2012
Call 2012 the Year of the Copycat. Many of the antievolution bills proposed this year were old bills that were simply dusted off and offered up as new. A 2011 Tennessee bill—largely drawn from Louisiana's infamous 2008 Science Education Act—was revived and signed into law in April. Among other…
Creationist success in South Korea?
A creationist campaign to remove references to evolution from high school biology textbooks in South Korea succeeded in May 2012, according to a report in Nature (June 5, 2012), when "the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology revealed that many of the publishers would produce revised…
"Classroom Clashes"
"Clashroom Clashes" — a two-part series by Carrie Madren posted on the American Association for the Advancement of Science's STEM.edu blog — "talks with middle and high school teachers across the country to find out what it's like to be on the frontlines of two often-controversial science topics…

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