(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Kentucky's governor reiterates his support for the Next Generation Science Standards. And a new poll reports on Virginians' attitude 
toward climate change.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A preview of Donald R. Prothero's Reality Check.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Promising news on the Texas textbook front. The NGSS avoid a potential
obstacle in Kentucky. And signs, if equivocal signs, of progress for
South Carolina's state science standards: a reaction and a report.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A new issue of Reports of the NCSE. A Nobel Prize for a member of
NCSE. NCSE's Glenn Branch discusses creationist abuse of genetics in
the pages of GeneWatch. And a preview of the second edition of Carl
Zimmer's The Tangled Bank.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

NCSE's Glenn Branch discusses Kentucky's reaction to creationists in
Evolution: Education and Outreach. NCSE needs your help in planning
for a series of on-line activist trainings. The New York Times reports
on the textbook adoption process in Texas. A new survey investigates
attitudes toward climate in rural Nebraska. And antievolutionists file
suit over Kansas's adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

NCSE's Glenn Branch and Eugenie C. Scott discuss creationist legends
about paleoanthropology in Evolution: Education and Outreach. A survey
assesses the attitudes of Texans to climate change. In the pages of
Scientific American, NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott and Minda Berbeco warn
about the threats to climate education. Barbara Forrest alerts
Pennsylvania about the prospective antiscience bill on the horizon.
And NESCent's Darwin Day Roadshow is accepting applications.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A bill targeting the Next Generation Science Standards is introduced
in Michigan, and climate is the reason. A survey assesses the
attitudes of Ohioans to climate change. The Kansas Republican Party
adopts a resolution opposing the NGSS, while Kentucky's largest
newspaper applauds the state's decision to adopt the NGSS. And in the
pages of BioScience, NCSE's Glenn Branch urges biologists to help to
defend the teaching of climate science.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

The Next Generation Science Standards are adopted in Kentucky -- but
for a moment it looked as though they might not be. A new poll
addresses public opinion on climate among Californians. Textbooks are
under attack by science deniers in Texas. And California is the sixth
state to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

What do Coloradans think about climate change? Plus a preview of Janin
and Mandia's Rising Sea Levels, and NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott is
profiled in The New York Times.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A new poll investigates public opinion on climate change in the United Kingdom.