Tag: textbooks
But Why Do Biology Textbooks Retain Discredited Evolutionary Icons?
The “experts” who swoop in to assure schools that their textbooks are in no need of fixing present a psychological puzzle.
In Turkey, Evolution Erased
That is really too bad. This development will not serve Turkish students well.
Textbooks Refuted — Three Case Studies
If textbooks evolve, then what we thought we knew yesterday is no longer true today.
Jonathan Wells: Biologist, Author of Zombie Science, and…Ex-Con?
Why is understanding Dr. Wells as a person important? Because in assessing anyone as a guide to anything, integrity must count for a great deal.
What’s Wrong with the Miller & Levine Biology Textbook?
After a contentious review process that attracted nationwide media attention, Kenneth Miller and Joseph Levine’s new edition of their textbook has been adopted for use in Texas.
Approved for Use in Texas Schools, Ken Miller’s Textbook Uses Galápagos Finches to Overstate the Case for Evolution
As I have shown in this series, Texas students, and others across the country, deserve better.
Miller’s Biology Textbook on Gradualism vs. Punctuated Equilibrium and the Scope of the Cambrian Explosion
Adopted for use in Texas, the Pearson textbook omits the single most important fact about the scope of the explosion of diversity in the Cambrian.
Is There “Plenty of Time” (in Texas) for the Evolution of Novelty?
Adopted for use in Texas, Ken Miller’s Pearson textbook, Biology, never mentions that many biologists doubt that natural selection can explain the origin of new biological features.
The (Texas) Tree of Life: “Every Scientific Test To-Date” Supports “Darwin’s Basic Ideas”
Enter biologist Ken Miller, who in 2013 submitted for adoption in Texas his textbook Biology, which promotes the opposite of critical thinking on evolution.
In Texas, Messing with Textbooks: Ken Miller’s Biology Skirts the Law, Marred by Errors and Omissions on Evolution
In 2009, Texas adopted statewide science standards, called Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or “TEKS.”