Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
With the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) this past April, we at the NCSE offices have been fielding calls from reporters wanting to know the dish. What are these new standards? How will they affect the teaching of climate change and evolution in public schools? Why do we…
While taking the day off for Labor Day, I couldn’t help thinking about all that the science education community owes labor unions. When a teacher calls NCSE for help fending off pressure from administrators who want to see creationism taught and climate change denied, the first thing we ask is “…
I’m in the process of rereading Donald R. Prothero’s Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future, in preparation of writing a review of it. It’s a fantastic book. Unfortunately, “it’s a fantastic book” is four words long, leaving me the task of finding a further 1996 words to…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Hunt Janin and Scott A. Mandia's Rising Sea Levels: An Introduction to Cause and Impact (McFarland & Company, 2012). The preview consists of chapter 12, "A Range of Options to Cope with Sea Level Rise," in which Janin and Mandia look "at two…
I am not the average American. It isn't that I needed the most recent report from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication to tell me that. But the results of their survey of how Americans communicate about…
Eugenie C. Scott NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott was profiled in the September 3, 2013, issue of The New York Times. Scott, the Times reported, "is nearing the end of a 27-year stint as executive director of the National Center for Science Education, which despite a…
Last week, on Fossil Friday, I posted a picture of one of my favorite fossils. This one is not unique; it is one of the most common fossils found across the world and as a result it is wildly popular. You can find them in most paleontology collections, natural history museum…
This week on Fossil Friday, I bring you my favorite fossil. Found all over the world, these carnivorous invertebrates went extinct 65 million years ago. They are one of the most abundant fossils found today. What are these organisms and who are their modern relatives?…
It seems like just yesterday, doesn’t it? But today, August 29, 2013, is the 89th anniversary of the Science League of America. The original Science League of America, of course, not the blog. When Maynard Shipley was giving a talk on evolution in San Francisco on August 29, 1924, he asked those…