NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2015/07/24
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2015-07-24 17:00.
National Center for Science Education
(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, A proposed resolution on climate science education fails to reach the Senate floor.
NO SENATE RESOLUTION ON CLIMATE EDUCATION When the United States Senate passed the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 on July 16, 2015, a proposed resolution acknowledging the scientific evidence for climate change and affirming the importance of climate science education was not included. The resolution (SA 2175), proposed by Edward Markey (D-Massachussetts), described the scientific evidence for human-induced climate change as "overwhelming and undeniable" and affirmed that "instruction in climate science is important for all students and should not be prohibited by any unit of State or local government." The resolution never reached the Senate floor. Two further amendments concerning climate change education were proposed, but as NCSE previously reported, one (SA 2176) was rejected on a floor vote and one (SA 2144) was withdrawn without a vote. For the three amendments, visit: https://www.congress.gov/amendment/114th-congress/senate-amendment/2175 https://www.congress.gov/amendment/114th-congress/senate-amendment/2176 https://www.congress.gov/amendment/114th-congress/senate-amendment/2144 And for NCSE's previous coverage of events at the national level, visit: http://ncse.com/news/national WHAT'S NEW FROM THE SCIENCE LEAGUE OF AMERICA Have you been visiting NCSE's blog, The Science League of America, recently? If not, then you've missed: * Emily Schoerning describing a recent outreach project from NCSE: http://ncse.com/blog/2015/07/ncse-goes-to-bible-camp-0016526 * Glenn Branch investigating the bivalvular gluttony of Adrian Duplantier: http://ncse.com/blog/2015/07/very-hungry-jurist-part-1-0016486 http://ncse.com/blog/2015/07/very-hungry-jurist-part-2-0016487 * Minda Berbeco describing NCSE's new outreach project aimed at teachers: http://ncse.com/blog/2015/07/introducingncseteach And much more besides! For The Science League of America, 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 x303 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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