Update: What Happens in Texas Doesn’t Stay In Texas
Monday, March 30, 2009 - 16:07
in Psychology & Sociology
For months, scientists, educators, and textbook publishers across the country have waited as members of the Texas Board of Education squabbled over whether to remove three little words in their sciences standards: “truths and weaknesses.” The controversy? The language—supported by creationists—requires biology teachers in Texas to discuss possible weaknesses in evolutionary theory, and has had implication for how evolution is taught across the country. read more