NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2012/06/29
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2012-06-29 14:41. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear Friends of NCSE, A new poll on attitudes toward climate change. A court rejects a claim that the evidence for climate change is shaky. And a preview of David R. Montgomery's The Rocks Don't Lie.
NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2012/06/22
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2012-06-22 15:07. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear Friends of NCSE, NCSE's Steven Newton discusses creationism and climate change denial in the pages of Earth. Plus NCSE is looking for a second staffer for its climate change initiative, and the situation in Kansas is making Kansans cringe, says the Lawrence Journal-World.
NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2012/06/15
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2012-06-15 16:56. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear Friends of NCSE, Evolution is under attack again in Kansas but is scheduled to come to the primary national curriculum in England. Plus a new issue of RNCSE and a new publication on Thinking Evolutionarily.
NCSE Evolution Education Update for 2012/06/08
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2012-06-08 15:45. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear Friends of NCSE, Are antievolution efforts on the horizon in Kansas, and have creationists won a victory in South Korea? Plus AAAS's STEM.edu blog talks to teachers about challenges to evolution and climate education; Gallup releases the results of its latest poll on evolution; and NCSE offers a free preview of Ian Tattersall's Masters of the Planet.
NCSE Evolution Education Update for 2012/06/01
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2012-06-01 15:10. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear Friends of NCSE, Just two seats remain on NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon! Plus a First Amendment award for Zack Kopplin, and the end of the road for three legislative attempts to attack the teaching of evolution and of climate change in Oklahoma.
NCSE Evolution Education Update for 2012/05/25
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2012-05-25 14:56. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear Friends of NCSE, Are private school scholarship programs promoting creationism at the expense of the public schools? Plus a poll on attitudes toward evolution in New Jersey, and the two antievolution bills in Missouri are dead.
NCSE Evolution Education Update for 2012/05/18
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2012-05-18 18:27. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear Friends of NCSE, The credit-for-creationism scheme in Alabama is dead, while a new report discusses the public's acceptance of climate change and the first draft of the Next Generation Science Standards is open for public comment.
NCSE Evolution Education Update for 2012/05/11
Submitted by Peter Burns on Sat, 2012-05-12 00:16. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear Friends of NCSE, A preview of Mark Hertsgaard's Hot for your reading pleasure, and a change to help NCSE's archives.
NCSE Evolution Education Update for 2012/05/04
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2012-05-04 14:54. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear Friends of NCSE, A new issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach, and a setback for antiscience efforts in Oklahoma.
NCSE Evolution Education Update for 2012/04/27
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2012-04-27 15:39. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear Friends of NCSE, Michael E. Mann receives the Oeschger Medal from the EGU and NCSE's Scott receives the Lasker Award from the AAPA. And the repeal effort fails in Louisiana by a close margin.