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Press Release: Creationists Wrong Again
CREATIONISTS WRONG AGAIN Once again, the creationists have blundered when it comes to science, this time presenting misinformation about the universality of the genetic code. The latest creationist attack on the public understanding of science comes in connection with a new 8-hour PBS…
Board Challenged on Teacher Reprimand
On August 13, 2001 the Lafayette School Corporation board was asked by a Jefferson High School chemistry teacher to remove a formal reprimand placed in his personnel file by the district's superintendent last September. The reprimand accused the teacher "of teaching religion through creationism in…
Board Members Oppose Evolution in Textbook
On July 30, 2001 the North Branch school district board voted 4-3 to adopt an environmental science textbook which had been opposed by two board members because it doesn't mention creationism as an explanation of life and it doesn't refer to evolution as only a "theory". Review…
State Board Considers, and Rejects, Creationism
On August 2 the Board of Education voted unanimously to retain the original language in Hawaii's science standards related to evolution. The Board had received several hundred messages on the subject, and heard from dozens of speakers supporting evolution education at the meeting. A committee of…
State Board Approves Revised Science Standards
On July 12, 2001 the Pennsylvania Board of Education gave final approval to revised science standards. Some language in preliminary versions of the standards had raised questions about their treatment of evolution. Science educators and other Pennsylvania citizens expressed concern that the…
School District Asked to Teach Creationism
In early August, 2001 a committee of eight teachers and a high school principal in Chetek, Wisconsin decided that "biology lessons would be limited to the theory of evolution". The committee met this summer "to discuss teaching creationism and review the curriculum in the science…
Board Members Support "Creation Science"
At the June 13 Plymouth Public Schools board meeting in Plymouth, Connecticut two members recommended giving "equal time" to creation science or other alternatives to evolution in biology classes. The chairman of the curriculum subcommittee of the school board was quoted in news reports as being…
School Board Members Oppose Science Textbooks
Two members of the Spring-Ford Area School District Board of School Directors opposed several new science textbooks considered at their May meeting. One member was quoted in news reports as feeling that the books "approach to teaching evolution was too limiting", and that students should…
School Board Members Oppose Science Textbooks
Two members of the Spring-Ford Area School District Board of School Directors opposed several new science textbooks considered at their May meeting. One member was quoted in news reports as feeling that the books "approach to teaching evolution was too limiting", and that students should…

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