The story about National Science Teachers of America refusing the "Inconvenient Truth" DVDs is not as black & white as previously reported. Sandra Porter has a good run-down.
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I figured it was probably not as black-and-white as my fellow SB'ers were making it in their eagerness to pile on. Such stories usually aren't.
I was definitely over-eager to post without double-checking as I saw a couple of trusted bloggers post about it already. My bad.
"NSTA policy states that the association cannot endorse any outside organization's products and/or messages to its members. Therefore, we do not send any such products and/or messages directly to our members, regardless of the source."
This is no longer in the press release. What happened to it?
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Is now missing from the end of the paragraph that begins "The partnership with API"....