Tag: teachers
In South Dakota, More Groundless Alarm about Academic Freedom
South Dakota’s HB 1270, proposed this year, was a simple, straightforward academic freedom bill. Unfortunately, it did not pass.
Academic Freedom Resolutions — For Darwin Day, Another Valuable Option for Citizen Activists
You may already know about academic freedom bills — such as those passed in Louisiana in 2008 and Tennessee in 2012.
Using Religion to Push Evolution in Public School Biology Class — What Could Go Wrong?
A much better approach would be no religion in biology class, and more science.
Chaffee, Sewell: “Evolution — More Certain Than Gravity?”
“Imagine two science teachers. Mr. Smith expects students simply to memorize and correctly regurgitate.”
Human Exceptionalism Explains the Longing for a “Human Touch”
No doubt evolutionary psychologists could a tell a story to explain this. They always can. Something about tribes of hunter-gatherers.