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Ten States Will Get No Child Left Behind Waivers

Category: Education

My State is better than your state! (Or Province or District.) The No Child Left Behind Law, for better or worse, is a Federal program to make states to a better job in education. It is a fairly specific plan. But many states came up...

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The State of State Science Standards

Category: Education

The vast majority of American public school students are not proficient in the level of science learning expected for their age group. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute has issued "The State of Science Standards 2012" as part of an effort to assess the causes of...

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Crazy Anti-Evolution Bills in New Hampshire

Category: Science Education

I mention the New Hampshire anti-evolution bills at The X Blog. Here's an update from the NCSE:...

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Talking About Evolution

Category: Science Education

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The problem with our system of science education is ...

Category: Science Education

Teachers teach facts instead of concepts. Teachers teach from the textbooks and barely understand what is in the book anyway. There is not enough hands-on learning. All teachers really do anyway is to show videos most of the time. What should really happen is that...

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Evolution Surrounded By Creationism? Arm Yourself with Books!

Category: Books

Suppose you are an intelligent, thoughtful person with a thirst for information, a desire to be challenged, and a tendency to not accept received knowledge at face value. You are embedded in a traditional Christian culture where most of your family, your child's teachers and...

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Ooops... we left all the children behind

Category: Education

Another nail in the coffin for No Child Left Behind

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Good news from the evolution-creationism front

Category: Creationism

Florida Senate Bill 1854 would have required a so-called "thorough presentation and critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution" which is code word in US state legislatures these days for "taught along side Intelligent Design Creationism as an alternative to established scientific reckoning of...

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The Nation's Science Report Card is out. Everything is going fine.

Category: Science Education

Clearly we have moved one step closer to our most important goals: Building a large and complacent poorly educated low-pay labor class, and increasing the size of our science-illiterate populous in order to allow the advance of medieval morality and Iron Age Christian values.

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Louisiana Does The Right Thing, But Will Still Probably Screw It Up

Category: Creationism

Louisiana is one of those states where really stupid stuff tends to happen, especially when it comes to evolution in the school curriculum. Recently, a state panel was in a position to chose either creationist textbooks with which to abuse the children for whom they...

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