A new study conducted by the Institute for Biology Education has concluded that the way in which supporting knowledge of key evolutionary findings is taught in biology lessons influences the entire ...
When a federal court in 2005 rejected an attempt by the Dover, Pa., school board to introduce intelligent design as an alternative to evolution to explain the development of life on Earth, it sparked ...
A visitor to the "Darwin" exhibit inspects a display with illustration of animals, plants and insects during a press preview at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, in this Nov. 15, ...
Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America Tennessee was the center of the national debate when it prosecuted John Thomas ...
Educators involved in curriculum design know one hard truth: you can’t fit in everything. Whatever the finished product, there will always be someone who thinks something important has been missed or ...
Not red in tooth and claw: Teaching evolution with conflict reduction practices increases acceptance
Illustration of study design for exploring the impact of conflict reducing evolution education practices on student acceptance of evolution. Students in biology classes accepted the theory of ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The ...
Whenever evolution and education are mentioned together in my circles, it is usually to discuss teaching evolution and keeping creationism out of public school classrooms. But evolution has an even ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana’s teaching of the theory of evolution does not violate the state or U.S. constitutions, a federal judge ruled Friday. Judge Sarah Evans Barker dismissed a lawsuit filed ...
Evolution is a fact of nature. Species change over time. The evidence is indisputable. Scientists have actually observed it as species evolved within our lifetimes. Bacteria, for example, have evolved ...
A coalition of 17 organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Institute of Physics, and the National Science Teachers Association, is calling on the scientific community to ...
According to the Georgia Department of Education, the word evolution is a "controversial buzzword" that should be removed from the state's biology curriculum. In this hour, we'll take a look at ...
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