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A Garden Grows, Thanks to NCSE’s Science Booster Club Program
It was the last day of school, a sweltering day in June 2018 at Oakland Mills High School in Columbia, Maryland.Fifteen students, all members of the school’s environmental club, sat in a classroom discussing their upcoming plans. Not for the next school year, but this summer.“We can come and water…
"Bringing Darwin Back"
"Bringing Darwin Back," published (subscription required) in the August 2018 issue of Scientific American, discusses efforts to improve evolution education in the American science classroom — and NCSE is featured.NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch was cited as explaining the "three…
Harun Yahya in hot water
Adnan Oktar, the controversial Islamic creationist who publishes under the name Harun Yahya, was arrested by Turkish police on July 11, 2018, according to the Hurriyet Daily News (July 11, 2018).Through the Scientific Research Foundation (Bilim Arastirma Vakfi, or BAV), Oktar and his…
Welcome to Kate Carter
NCSE is pleased to welcome Kate Carter, NCSE's new Director of Community Science Education. Carter comes to NCSE from Harvard University, where she earned her Ph.D. in human evolutionary biology and taught human evolutionary biology. Her experience also includes conducting extensive informal…
RNCSE 38:3 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 38, number 3 — is the eleventh issue in the newsletter's new, streamlined, and full-color format.Featured are Katherine Wu's "…
NCSE's Reid talks climate education
NCSE's executive director Ann Reid appeared on Your Call, a daily radio show on San Francisco's KALW, on June 25, 2018, to discuss climate change education. Among the points she made on the episode, "One Planet: What Are K-12 Students Learning About Climate Change," was that a majority of science…
Climate Change Teacher Ambassadors Will Highlight Work in Upcoming Webinars
We welcomed our first eight NCSEteach Teacher Ambassadors in February through the Turning Misinformation into Educational Opportunities (TMEO) Workshop at George Mason University. This group of teachers developed a unit of five hands-on lessons on climate change and field tested them…
Meet Our Evolution Teacher Ambassadors
We've chosen 10 amazing teachers to participate in the NCSEteach Teacher Ambassador Program Workshop for Evolution at Georgia Southern University in July. This is the second workshop conducted through our Teacher Ambassador Program (TAP), and the first focused exclusively on evolution. TAP is…
NOVA Takes On Climate Change
One of the hardest lessons I have had to learn is that facts are not all powerful. As a scientist, I love facts. A paleontologist tells me that there is a 365-million-year-old fishlike thing with eight fingers that is an ancient cousin to tetrapods? Amazing! Where can we find more like it? A…

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