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Prospect of a new Scopes trial
Three of Tennessee's top scientists warn, "the Tennessee legislature is doing the unbelievable: attempting to roll the clock back to 1925 by attempting to insert religious beliefs in the teaching of science." In a column published in the Nashville Tennessean (March 25, 2012), Roger D. Cone, Robert…
Nobelists and the "monkey bills"
(click to embiggen)A Tennesseean Nobel laureate in science, Stanley Cohen, already denounced (PDF) Tennessee's "monkey bills" as promising to "miseducate students, harm the state's national reputation, and weaken its efforts to compete in a science-driven global economy." But what…
A preview of Charles R. Knight
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Richard Milner's Charles R. Knight: The Artist Who Saw Through Time (Abrams Books, 2012). The preview consists of passages from Charles R. Knight's autobiography, in which he discusses his visit to the paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope's home — "…
The Nashville Tennessean on the "monkey bills"
The Nashville Tennessean (March 21, 2012) editorially denounced Tennessee's "monkey bills" as "wedging open a door to include a radically divisive, ultra-conservative Christian agenda disguised in politically correct language." The bills — House Bill 368 and Senate Bill 893 — would encourage…
Introducing Energy Literacy
A new resource, Energy Literacy: Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts for Energy Education, offers educators with guidance to help individuals and communities make informed energy decisions — including those related to climate change. Energy is an inherently interdisciplinary topic.…
F. Sherwood Rowland dies
F. Sherwood RowlandThe distinguished atmospheric and environmental chemist F. Sherwood Rowland died on March 10, 2012, at the age of 84, according to the obituary in the Los Angeles Times (March 12, 2012). Born in Delaware, Ohio, on June 28, 1927, he attended Ohio Wesleyan…
Climate change education in the Wall Street Journal
"After many years in which evolution was the most contentious issue in science education, climate change is now the battle du jour in school districts across the country," the Wall Street Journal (March 11, 2012) reports (subscription required). And the battle is likely to heighten with the…
Voices for climate change education
NCSE is pleased to announce the debut of a new resource in the climate change section of its website: "Voices for climate change education." Following the model of Voices for Evolution, NCSE's unique collection of organizational statements endorsing the teaching of evolution, "Voices for climate…
A further defeat for Freshwater
John Freshwater's legal challenge to the decision to terminate his employment as a middle school science teacher in Mount Vernon, Ohio, was defeated again, on March 5, 2012, when Ohio's Fifth District Court of Appeals upheld (PDF) a lower court's rejection of his challenge. It is still open to…

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