Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
I’m still talking about John Tyndall (right; 1820–1893), the Anglo-Irish physicist remembered for demonstrating the greenhouse effect, and in particular about his 1878 essay “Virchow and Evolution.” Michael D. Barton devoted a 2010 essay in Reports of the NCSE to a case in which…
Reaching an audience has not been a problem for the Science Booster Club Project. At the rate we’re going, we will have provided informal, engaging educational experiences on topics such as climate change and evolution to more than 5,000 people by the end of February. That’s not bad in-person…
When we got the results back from our national survey of climate change education, the good news jumped out at us. Climate change is actually showing up in schools. 1500 teachers' responses when asked how much time they allocate to climate change. Widths of the green bars correspond to the…
"Climate Confusion Among U.S. Teachers" (PDF), a paper in the journal Science describing the first nationwide survey of climate change education in the United States, conceived and funded by NCSE and conducted in collaboration with researchers at Pennsylvania State University, received…
Arizona's Senate Resolution 1001, which would, if enacted, express the Senate's recognition of February 12, 2016, as International Darwin Day, was passed on a 5-1 vote by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources on February 15, 2016. The measure would also need to be approved by the Senate…
Last week I posted a review of the Synthetic Darwin Interview, a new award-winning app that lets you ask Darwin questions about everything from “What’s your middle name?” to “Would you approve of applying your theories to the social sciences?” There are 199 pre-loaded questions in all, and Darwin…
As you probably know, NCSE released the first national survey on the teaching of climate change in public schools last week in Science. Why did we do this survey? Our executive director, Ann Reid, wrote yesterday in our blog: “We had anecdotal evidence, and some good, but not national,…
Antonin Scalia Antonin Scalia, a justice on the United States Supreme Court, died on February 13, 2016, at the age of 79, according to the obituary in The New York Times (February 14, 2016). Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, Scalia served on the court from 1986 until…
Last Friday, February 12, the very first national survey on the teaching of climate change in U.S. middle and high schools, was published in Science magazine. I couldn’t be prouder! The results of this survey will guide not only NCSE’s work defending the integrity of the science classroom…