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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…
Harun Yahya
Harun Yahya
Harun Yahya on trial
The trial of Adnan Oktar, the controversial Islamic creationist who publishes under the name Harun Yahya, started in Istanbul, Turkey, on September 17, 2019, according to the Associated Press (September 17, 2019). Through the Scientific Research Foundation (Bilim Arastirma Vakfi, or BAV), Oktar…
Bruce Alberts in his office
Bruce Alberts in his office
Random Samples: A Conversation with Bruce Alberts
Longtime NCSE member Bruce Alberts is a renowned biochemist with a long list of lifetime achievements. Alberts was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama in 2014 and the Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science in 2016. Alberts served as editor in chief…
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Image of CBS poll data
Americans recognize climate change but split on human impact and scientific consensus, says a new poll
Americans generally acknowledge the reality of climate change, but remain split over the role of human activity and the existence of a scientific consensus, according to a new poll from CBS News (September 15, 2019), released as part of Covering Climate Now, a collaboration of more than 250 news…
A resolution honors Louisiana's attack on science education
Louisiana's Senate Resolution 224 (PDF), introduced on May 31, 2019, and adopted on the following day, commends Gene Mills, the president of the Louisiana Family Forum, in part because "he was the driving force behind the Louisiana Science Education Act in 2008." The act, implemented as…
Flag of Wales
Flag of Wales
Banning creationism in Welsh schools?
As a new national curriculum is under development in Wales, a group of the United Kingdom's leading scientists and educators is calling for both increasing the amount of evolution in the curriculum and explicitly banning the teaching of creationism, according to the BBC (September 5, 2019). The…
AMC Outdoors
AMC Outdoors
NCSE on climate education legislation in AMC Outdoors
NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch was interviewed for Clare Kittredge's "Should Climate Change Education in Schools Be Mandatory?" which appeared in AMC Outdoors (August 26, 2019). The article focuses on the recent attempt in Connecticut to require the teaching of climate change in the…
Teachers at a Nature of Science workshop
Teachers at a Nature of Science workshop
This Summer’s Workshops on Evolution and on the Nature of Science
We held our second workshop for evolution teachers this summer at Michigan State University, and our first later in the same week on the nature of science at Clemson University. It was a busy week to say the least. It was also an extremely productive week. We were able to gather valuable input…

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