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Geotimes November 2004 Megan Sever	More Challeneges to Evolution In three states this week, battles rage on about the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools.
Geotimes March 2005 Megan Sever	Evolution Battles Rage School districts in Pennsylvania and Georgia are challenging evolution theory in the classroom, and now the courtroom.
Geotimes September 2003 Megan Sever	Textbook battle over evolution Now that the Texas board is considering 11 biology and science textbooks for adoption and use in its 2004-2005 school year, the evolution debate has once again erupted in Texas and around the country.
Geotimes November 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Kansas Vote Challenges Evolution The Kansas State Board of Education voted yesterday to approve science education standards that treat evolution with skepticism. Scientists say that the standards open the door for nonscientific beliefs such as intelligent design to enter science classrooms across the state.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Evolution Battles Continue The battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools in the United States reached a fervor this week, as a number of prominent scientists testified in an ongoing court trial that pits evolution against intelligent design.
Geotimes April 2005 Linda Rowan	Creationism: Back in Kansas Again Unfortunately, a brief history of the creationism movement over the past 80 years suggests that the debate has not been resolved, but rather the movements in Kansas and elsewhere are subtly changing tactics to try to gain the same objective.
Geotimes September 2005 Nisbet & Nisbet	Evolution & Intelligent Design: Understanding Public Opinion Tensions in American society over religious and scientific accounts of human origins are centuries old, and the divide between the two contending worldviews continues today as part of an escalating political conflict over science education.
Salon.com May 4, 2001 Fiona Morgan	Louisiana calls Darwin a racist The state Legislature casts him in the same league as Hitler. A science educator says it's going to be a rough year for evolutionists...
Geotimes September 2003 David Applegate	Opposition to Evolution Takes Many Forms A 1987 Supreme Court decision forced evolution opponents to reassess their approach and seek alternative strategies that would not run afoul of the constitutional wall of separation between church and state. In the intervening years, two such strategies have emerged.
Geotimes September 2003 Megan Sever	Evolution debate continues in Texas At a public hearing on Wednesday, people on both sides of the ongoing evolution debate duked it out over how the topic should be covered in Texas high school biology textbooks.
Geotimes November 2003 Megan Sever	Evolution to stay in Texas texts On Nov. 7, the months-long debate over how evolution would be presented in high-school biology textbooks in Texas came to a head: Evolution is here to stay, in its entirety.
Geotimes January 2005 Megan Sever	Evolution Disclaimers Unconstitutional A federal judge in Atlanta, Ga., has issued a ruling on the evolution disclaimer stickers placed in Cobb County science textbooks in 2002. He said that the disclaimers are unconstitutional and should be removed immediately from all texts into which it has been placed.
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design (ID) as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. Just two weeks after the decision, schoolboard members voted to remove ID from its curricula.
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover Area School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design -- a religious theory -- as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional.
Science News April 3, 2004	Understanding Evolution Understanding Evolution is an extensive Web site designed to meet the needs of K-12 teachers presenting evolution in the classroom.
Chemistry World January 7, 2015 Erin Withans	Undeniable: evolution and the science of creation Bill Nye's Undeniable is an account of Darwin's theory of evolution with a good overview of the scientific research that make evolution, in Nye's view, 'undeniable'.
Geotimes March 2004	Earth science education in Texas The Texas State Board of Education voted last Friday to redesignate earth science courses from an elective status to a core credit option to satisfy a science requirement in the state's high schools.
Geotimes March 2006 Bergstrom & Lipsitch	Evolution Lessons From Infectious Diseases Even though the critics of evolutionary biology rarely dispute examples of microbial evolution on human timescales, the public appears largely unaware of the importance and success of evolutionary biology in dealing with human disease.
T.H.E. Journal October 14, 2009 David Nagel	Study: Games, Video Improve Preschooler Literacy A new study has shown that educational videos and interactive games can have a positive impact on preschooler literacy when incorporated into the curriculum in a classroom setting.
Wired October 2004 Evan Ratliff	The Crusade Against Evolution In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of "creation science" is invading America's classrooms.
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Kendalll Powell	Jeffrey Kieft: Inspired to Serve In addition to running his University of Colorado lab, he engages church groups on the theory of evolution. He's driven to advocate for science.
Science News July 2, 2005	Evolution at the Academies This Web site provides access to books, position statements, and additional material on evolution education and research.
Chemistry World September 2006 Mark Peplow	Editorial: Making a Monkey Out of Evolution If a scientific concept as well supported as evolution can be widely regarded as false, what hope for the greenhouse effect, radiocarbon dating, or the second law of thermodynamics? Chemists have as much responsibility as other scientists to uphold the value of hard evidence.
Wired October 23, 2007 Clive Thompson	Clive Thompson on Why Science Will Triumph Only When Theory Becomes Law Turns out, the real culture war in science isn't about science at all -- it's about language. And to fight this war, we need to change the way we talk about scientific knowledge.
Scientific American October 2008 Sally Lehrman	The Christian Man's Evolution: How Darwinism and Faith Can Coexist A geneticist ordained as a Dominican priest, Francisco J. Ayala sees no conflict between Darwinism and faith. Convincing most of the American public of that remains the challenge.
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012	Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students.
Geotimes May 2003 Branch & Evans	All About Steve (and Darwin) Project Steve is a parody of the lists used by creationists to try to convince the public that evolution is shaky. But there is a serious side to it, too: to remind the public that scientific questions are not answered by acclamation but by scientific research, which, of course, overwhelmingly supports evolution.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Jim Barlow	Stirring Debate Joe Thornton is a laser-focused scientist probing the molecular evolution of steroid hormones and their receptors. When Thornton enters the classroom of "Biology and Politics," however, his focus broadens to embrace his background in the liberal arts and environmental activism.
Popular Mechanics September 2, 2008 Matt Sullivan	Adam Savage's Plan to Banish Boring Science Education & More Adam Savage discusses everything from No Child Left Behind to the evolution debate in America's schools
Science News February 16, 2002	The Way We Were Website on the science of human evolution.
T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Gloria Bush	Logging on to Staff Development Enhancing your teachers' knowledge and use of educational technology through online professional development.
Geotimes December 2005	Highlights 2005 -- Paleontology The "Great Dying" debate... Tracking human migration... More "hobbits" in Indonesia... T. rex bones break ground... An evolving debate...
T.H.E. Journal August 2007 Christina C. Schaller	Let Academic Freedom Ring Unless we liberate science from political and religious forces, our students don't stand a chance in the global workforce.
Geotimes September 2004 Harold McWilliams	Transforming Teachers into Designers Earth Science by Design promotes creating stronger, more professional earth science teachers, fully versed in the core ideas of their discipline and skilled in the curriculum design techniques that the best developers have used for years.
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2009	Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Digital media benefits preparation for primary school... Houghton Mifflin will donate trees to schools... Website will promote science careers for girls... Schools are rated for online security... etc.
D-Lib March 2004 Bonnie Wilson	D-Lib Featured Collection March 2004: Cosmic Evolution The Cosmic Evolution site uses text, images and movies to trace the evolution of the Universe from its origin through seven epochs (Particulate, Galactic, Stellar, Planetary, Chemical, Biological, and Cultural) as well as an eighth, Future Epoch, that includes Chaisson's ideas on the future prospects for human life and for alien life elsewhere in the Universe
Geotimes February 2004 Edward C. Roy Jr.	Assessing Earth Science in Texas In Texas, a group of geoscientists is fighting to restore earth science to the core curriculum of the state's high schools.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2005 Humphrey Taylor	Back Page: Evolution? It's Not Right! The Religious Right is likely to influence the future of medicine, healthcare, and medical research.
T.H.E. Journal October 2001 Paul Ohme & James Rayford	Hands-On Professional Development Innovative program allows Georgia teachers to bring real-world work experiences into the classroom...
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011	Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out?
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010	A Custom Fit K-12 educators need to get a better understanding of open content, for their own benefit as well as their students'.
T.H.E. Journal January 2003 Greg Decker	Using Data to Drive Student Achievement in the Classroom and on High-Stakes Tests To increase student achievement in the classroom and on state tests, teachers need current and accurate data today. They need to see the relationship between student performance on curriculum and performance on the tests. In addition, they need to see it in real time, not months later.
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Anita Givens	Technology Integration: Meeting the Technology Integration Challenge in Texas Schools Deep in the heart of Texas classrooms, students use digital technology to access, analyze and evaluate information; solve problems; and communicate with diverse audiences.
T.H.E. Journal August 2000	Leading Elementary Students Through the Jungle How Maxwell Elementary School greatly improved student performance.
Science News May 20, 2006	Science Safari: Darwin and Evolution This online exhibit is a fascinating account of how Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution and how that theory is regarded today.
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 Nicole Kresge	Bones, Stones, and Genes Students and teachers joined five experts in what may have been the largest stone tool-making session in the history of human evolution.
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Jennifer Demski	Free At Last By creating a user-generated, ever-growing library of original digital content, an Arizona school district has liberated its teachers from the restraints of a textbook-driven curriculum model.
Geotimes September 2005 Lee J. Suttner	Believing vs. Knowing: Faith's Role in the Evolution Debate Belief in evolution does not preclude belief in God. But belief is the key word. Fully understanding the concept of belief is fundamental to arguments for keeping creationism and its clever smokescreen, intelligent design, out of the science classrooms of all of our schools, not just the public ones.
T.H.E. Journal March 2007 John K. Waters	Online Collaboration :: Curriculum Unbound! Freed from the nuisances of paper-based methods, districts are making creative use of digital tools to move their curricular documents online, where educators can collaborate on course development and lesson planning.
Reason July 2008 Ronald Bailey	Flunk This Movie! Ben Stein's new anti-evolution propaganda film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, is all worldview and no evidence. It gives no scientific evidence against biological evolution nor none for intelligent design.