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RNCSE Volume 39 Issue 4 cover
RNCSE Volume 39 Issue 4 cover
RNCSE 39:4 now online
NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education — volume 39, number 4 — is now available online.  Featured are Kate Carter’s report on NCSE's work equipping Smithsonian volunteers to tackle difficult conversations, Paul Oh's…
Teacher with students in the field
Teacher with students in the field
NCSE's Ann Reid on How to Teach Climate Change Effectively
NCSE's executive director Ann Reid contributed "Dry Facts, Debate, Despair: How Not to Teach Climate Change" to Education Week (September 23, 2019). "Dry facts, debate, doom and gloom—teachers striving to teach climate change effectively despite the obstacles to doing so can be forgiven…
Florida bill
Florida bill
"Science Education is Under Legislative Attack"
Writing for Scientific American's Observations blog (September 27, 2019), NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch reviewed the spate of legislative measures in 2019 that threatened the integrity of science education. In his column, "Science Education Is Under Legislative Attack," Branch…
U.S. Capitol building
U.S. Capitol building
Resolution to support climate change education introduced in Congress
H. Res. 574, recently introduced in the House of Representatives, would, if adopted, express the House's support for "teaching climate change in public and private schools at all grade levels." The resolution observes that "there is a broad consensus among climate scientists that the human…
Director of Teacher Support Lin Andrews checking in with students
Director of Teacher Support Lin Andrews checking in with students
Lin Andrews: Creating Meaningful Professional Development for Teachers
NCSE’s newest team member is Lin Andrews, who will serve as Director of Teacher Support beginning in late fall. Andrews comes to NCSE from the Independent School in Wichita, Kansas, where she rotates between teaching six different curricula, including AP and grade-level biology, anatomy, and zoo…
Graduate Student Outreach Fellow Laurie Luckritz
Graduate Student Outreach Fellow Laurie Luckritz
Fellows Focus: Laurie Luckritz
Laurie Luckritz grew up in a religious household where she was taught not to believe in evolution—which makes the fact that she is now a graduate student in biology at the University of Central Missouri all the more noteworthy. She is one of six graduate students who make up our first cohort of…
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The Atlantic Monthly logo
NCSE on human evolution education in The Atlantic
NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch was interviewed for Olga Khazan's "I Was Never Taught Where Humans Came From," published on The Atlantic's website (September 19, 2019). In her public high school in Texas, Khazan relates, "We did not, to my recollection, learn much of anything about…
Teens protesting climate change
Teens protesting climate change
Teens accept human-caused climate change despite not learning a lot about it in school
A new Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll surveyed teens as well as adults about their views on climate change. Asked, "Do you think human activity is or is not causing changes to the world's climate, including an increase in average temperature," 79 percent of adults and 86…
NCSE Teacher Ambassador Melinda Landry
NCSE Teacher Ambassador Melinda Landry
Meet Our Teacher Ambassadors: Melinda Landry
As well as working as a high school science teacher in Virginia, NCSE Teacher Ambassador Melinda Landry has facilitated district-wide professional development on how to use case studies to teach science curriculum. She has participated in multiple outreach and training events, including…

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