The National Earth Science Teachers Association released the executive summary of its 2011 on-line survey on climate change education, which examines (PDF) the responses of 555 K-12 educators in the United States who teach about climate change.

Challenges to climate change education are common in the classroom, according to a poll of science educators conducted by the National Science Teachers Association.

A noteworthy new paper reports on a national survey of high school biology teachers concerning the teaching of evolution. According to Michael B.

Reports of the National Center for Science Education

Title: 

Ohio Teachers on Teaching Evolution and Counter-Evolutionary Concepts in Biology Classrooms

Author(s): 

Kim Bilica, University at Buffalo (SUNY) and Gerald Skoog, Texas Tech University

Year: 

2004

Date: 

January–February

The Question*

How did the 2002 state curriculum standards debate influence Ohio teachers’ decisions to emphasize evolution and counter-evolutionary concepts in biology classrooms?

The Context

From January to December 2002, the debate about the role of biological evolution and alternatives to evolution (specifically, “intelligent design”) in Ohio’s life science curriculum standards was intense.

Creation Evolution Journal

Title: 

News Briefs from the Editor

Year: 

1981

Quarter: 

Fall

Arkansas