National Center for Science Education
NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/12/06
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-12-06 17:00. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, News about NCSE's next webinar for activists. A development in the lawsuit over Kansas's adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards. A Church & State interview with NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott. And a slew of new videos at NCSE's YouTube channel.
NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/11/29
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-11-29 16:45. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, Glenn Branch reviews American Genesis in Evolution: Education and Outreach. Victory in Texas! And a new issue of Reports of the NCSE for your reading pleasure.
NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/11/22
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-11-22 18:49. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, It's not too late to register for NCSE's first webinar for science education activists. Meanwhile, NCSE recruited fifty-two scientific and scholarly societies to support good science education in Texas. Kudos for NCSE's incoming executive director Ann Reid in Science Insider. A decision from the Supreme Court of Ohio ends a creationist teacher's challenge to his termination. And NCSE's announcement that Ann Reid is to be its new executive director.
NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/11/15
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-11-15 14:42. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, The Dallas Observer looks at Texas antievolutionism past and present. NCSE offers a preview of John Gurche's Shaping Humanity. The executive director of the National Science Teachers Association offers good advice to the Texas state board of education. And a new survey examines public opinion about climate change in Canada.
NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/11/08
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-11-08 14:55. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, A host of on-line resources in honor of the centenary of Alfred Russel Wallace's death. NCSE's Facebook page attains the thirty kilofriend mark. A new fossil is named after a member of NCSE. And a new poll on climate suggests that the partisan divide continues.
NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/11/01
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-11-01 17:26. National Center for Science Education(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.
NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/10/25
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-10-25 14:43. National Center for Science Education(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, A preview of Donald R. Prothero's Reality Check.
NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/10/18
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-10-18 15:51. National Center for Science Education(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.
NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/10/11
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-10-11 15:02. National Center for Science Education(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.
NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/10/04
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-10-04 15:48. National Center for Science Education(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.