Science Is Constantly Evolving

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NCSE's Branch contemplates Epperson in Scientific American
Writing for Scientific American's blog (November 26, 2018), NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch considered the progress in evolution education in the last half century, from the defeat of Scopes-era bans on teaching evolution through the series of attempts to "balance" evolution with a…
NCSE's Reid celebrates Epperson in the Los Angeles Times
Writing in the Los Angeles Times (November 18, 2018), NCSE's executive director Ann Reid celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in Epperson v. Arkansas overturning bans on teaching evolution — but warned that "teaching evolution is still…
Grab your popcorn!
New videos from NCSE!From NCSE's Science Booster Club program there is a new promotional video explaining the program, plus three training videos (on turtle phylogeny, ocean acidification, and sea level rise). From NCSEteach there are videos of three (1, 2, 3) of NCSE's Evolution Teacher…
Susan Epperson
Susan Epperson
Looking Back with Epperson, Fifty Years Later
This past July (2018), I had the pleasure of hosting NCSE Teacher Ambassadors at Georgia Southern for a two-day workshop. During our time together, we shared and explored content and best practices for teaching, covering everything from recent fossil discoveries to how to deal with conflict in…
"Dueling Books Compete to Educate Kids on Climate Change"
A spate of scientifically accurate and pedagogically appropriate teaching materials about climate change is arriving, according to Frontline (November 2, 2018) — hopefully in time to stymie a new propaganda campaign rumored to be under way.NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch explained, "…
"In America's Science Classrooms, the Creep of Climate Skepticism"
Sean Patrick Cooper, writing in Undark (November 2, 2018), reports, "Conservative groups are working hard to challenge the teaching of mainstream climate science in schools" — and cites NCSE as helping to prepare science teachers to resist the challenge.Cooper focuses on Florida, where a law…
Epperson anniversary highlighted in Church & State
The fiftieth anniversary of Epperson v. Arkansas, the 1968 Supreme Court case that struck down Arkansas's ban on the teaching of evolution, was celebrated in "She Stood for Science," published in the November 2018 issue of Church & State, the monthly magazine of Americans…
Congratulations to Scott and Behrensmeyer
NCSE’s founding executive director Eugenie C. Scott will receive the John and Mary Lou Pojeta Service Award from the Paleontological Society at a banquet during its annual meeting held in Indianapolis on November 4, 2018.The Pojeta award was established to recognize exceptional professional or…
Polling the flat earth redux
"If it's difficult to believe that people embrace a flat Earth, it's going to be difficult to trust a poll that claims to validate that belief," wrote NCSE's Glenn Branch and Craig A. Foster of the US Air Force Academy in a blog post for Scientific American (October 24, 2018).Continuing…

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