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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 37, number 1 — is the fifth issue in the newsletter's new, streamlined, and full-color format.Featured are Glenn Branch's review of…
As reported last week by Glenn Branch, NCSE board member Ben Santer was on Late Night with Seth Meyers this past Wednesday. If you haven’t watched it yet, please do so now—you won’t regret it. If nothing else, it’ll make you feel a little bit better about the world knowing that a major network talk…
NCSE's annual report for 2016 is now available (PDF) on NCSE's website. The report briefly reviews the challenges to the integrity of science education, summarizes the results of the NCSE/Penn State survey of climate change education, describes the burgeoning Science Booster Club and Scientist in…
NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch contributed a column, entitled "It's About Time To Teach Evolution Forthrightly," to the February 2017 issue of The Science Teacher, a special issue devoted to evolution.Taking the fiftieth anniversary of the repeal of Tennessee's Butler Act in 1967 as…
A while ago, I wrote a blog post about a chunky volume entitled 1001 Ideas that Changed the Way We Think (2013), edited by Robert Arp. Although I contributed thirty-one brief articles on various scientific, philosophical, and cultural topics to the volume, nothing relevant to creationism…
Ben Santer, a member of NCSE's board of directors, appeared (starting at about 33:00) on Late Night with Seth Meyers on February 22, 2017. Asked to comment on the federal government's shift in attitude to the reality of climate change, Santer said, "It feels tough. Imagine, if you will, that…
NCSE is seeking to hire a Director of Teacher Support. The full-time position involves overseeing NCSE's current teacher support programs, NCSEteach and Scientist in the Classroom, as well as developing and implementing new programs that provide tangible and practical support to as many…
Emily Schoerning, NCSE's Director of Community Organizing and Research, was elected as the National Science Teachers Association's Research Division Director.Schoerning is perhaps most familiar for her efforts at community organizing, having overseen the pilot of NCSE's Science Booster Club…
I’d like to invite you to take a moment to peruse the NCSE staff directory. One thing you’ll notice (after you note what an interesting bunch we are) is that there aren’t very many of us. Fewer than a dozen in fact, tasked with the daunting mission of ensuring that every teacher, in every school,…