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Evolution Debates in Legislatures and on the Campaign Trail
In state legislatures and on the campaign trail, the debate over evolution is about more than science. Legislatures in...
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Science Education Report Shows Best and Worst U.S. States
“Don’t know much about science” may be a good description of many students in U.S. public schools, at least...
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How the Fall of Communism Changed Mathematics in the U.S.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx of Soviet mathematicians to U.S. institutions, and those...
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What’s a Science Teacher to Do?
It used to be sex ed that got science teachers into challenging situations once in awhile. Evolution, too, of...
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Low IQ and Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice
There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb,...
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Obama Administration Challenges Schools to Embrace Digital Textbooks
Are hardbound textbooks going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools? Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal...
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Do STEM Faculties Want Undegraduates To Study STEM Fields?
Kay Steiger and Scott Zeger talk about ways college professors could make introductory science classes less off-putting and encourage...
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Belief in Evolution Boils Down to a Gut Feeling
Intuitive reasoning may help explain why some people are more accepting of evolution than others.
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How Smarter Data Can Save U.S. Education
One reason No Child Left Behind is all but a failed initiative, is that one of its main metrics,...
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Education, Religion … Evolution?
The evidence is clear, as in a February 2009 Gallup Poll, taken on the eve of the 200th anniversary...