You are hereCreationist legislation in Indiana
 Senate Bill 89, prefiled in the Indiana Senate and referred to the Committee on Education and Career Development, would, if enacted, amend the Indiana Code to provide that "[t]he governing body of a school corporation may require the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life, including creation science, within the school corporation." Monitoring antievolution bills in New Hampshire
 The two antievolution bills in the New Hampshire legislature attracted the attention of the Concord Monitor (December 29, 2011). The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach
 The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach — the new journal promoting the accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience — is now published. The theme for the issue (volume 4, number 4) is Evolution and Medicine, edited by Kristin P. Jenkins and Michael F. Antolin. Antievolution legislation in New Hampshire
The two antievolution bills on the horizon in New Hampshire have now been prefiled in the state House of Representatives. RNCSE 31:6 now on-line
NCSE is pleased to announce the sixth issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education in its new on-line format. The Freshwater case still continues
 With a brief filed (PDF) in Ohio's Fifth District Court of Appeals, John Freshwater is appealing a court's ruling to uphold his termination as a middle school science teacher in Mount Vernon, Ohio. County school superintendent blasts evolution
 The superintendent of the school system in Hart County, Kentucky, is complaining about the emphasis on evolution in the state's new end-of-course test for biology, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader (December 13, 2011). Evolution censored in Turkey?
 Evolution "ranks alongside pornography and terrorism as topics that the Turkish government's controversial new Internet filtering scheme keeps out of the hands of children," according to a post on the ScienceInsider blog (December 9, 2011). A preview of The Magic of Reality
 NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Richard Dawkins's book for children The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Free Press, 2011). Creationism in British higher education
 Steve JonesWriting in The Telegraph (December 3, 2011), the geneticist Steve Jones reflects on his experience in teaching university students who reject evolution — and refuse even to learn about it — because of their religious objections. Pages
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