NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/08/23
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-08-23 16:44.
National Center for Science Education
(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, A reminder that NCSE provides speakers to discuss evolution and climate education. Plus NCSE launches its new blog.
NEED A SPEAKER? As the only national organization that is wholly dedicated to defending the teaching of evolution and climate change in the public schools, NCSE is the perfect place to find someone to speak to your organization or university about issues relevant to evolution and climate education and attacks on either or both. Available speakers include NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott, Minda Berbeco, Glenn Branch, Peter M. J. Hess, Mark McCaffrey, Eric Meikle, Joshua Rosenau, and Steven Newton, as well as four (past or present) members of our board of directors, Barbara Forrest, Kevin Padian, Andrew J. Petto, and Benjamin D. Santer. So if you need a speaker, please feel free to visit the speakers information page on the NCSE website or get in touch with the NCSE office. If nobody from NCSE is available or suitable, we'll try to find you someone who is! For the list of available speakers, visit: http://ncse.com/about/speakers For full contact information for NCSE, visit: http://ncse.com/contact NCSE LAUNCHES "SCIENCE LEAGUE OF AMERICA" BLOG NCSE is pleased to announce the launch of its new blog, Science League of America. Its title, as Josh Rosenau discloses in his welcome post, is taken from the Science League of America, a proto-NCSE run by the polymath Maynard Shipley in the 1920s. "We can think of no better way to honor Shipley's pioneering work than to resurrect his group's name," Rosenau explains. "This blog's writers -- NCSE staff and our friends and allies from the field -- carry forward the dream of honest and thorough science education which motivated the founders of the Science League in the '20s and NCSE's founders in the '80s. We look forward to conversations with our readers and commenters about science, education, and attacks on science education around the world." Please support Science League of America by reading, commenting, and spreading the word! Besides Rosenau's welcome post, the Science League of America debuts with four brand-new posts from NCSE staffers: Mark McCaffrey commenting on the changing public relations approaches of Exxon Mobil over the last fifty years, Eugenie C. Scott wondering about a media description of the Institute for Creation Research's John D. Morris as an "evolutionary creationist" ("trust me on this one," she writes, "none of the people at the ICR consider themselves evolutionists in any form"); Steven Newton pondering the disquieting implications of a recent article in Nature Geoscience (and managing to invoke Jimi Hendix along the way); and Mark McCaffrey again, suggesting that, in a recent discussion of climate pedagogy published in Nature Climate Change, climate change denial is the elephant in the room. For NCSE's "Science League of America" blog, visit: http://ncse.com/blog Thanks for reading. And don't forget to visit NCSE's website -- http://ncse.com -- where you can always find the latest news on evolution and climate education and threats to them. -- Sincerely, Glenn Branch Deputy Director National Center for Science Education, Inc. 420 40th Street, Suite 2 Oakland, CA 94609-2509 510-601-7203 x305 fax: 510-601-7204 800-290-6006 branch@ncse.com http://ncse.com Check out NCSE's new blog, Science League of America: http://ncse.com/blog Read Reports of the NCSE on-line: http://reports.ncse.com Subscribe to NCSE's free weekly e-newsletter: http://groups.google.com/group/ncse-news NCSE is on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/evolution.ncse http://www.youtube.com/NatCen4ScienceEd http://twitter.com/ncse NCSE's work is supported by its members. Join today! http://ncse.com/join
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