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Robert Luhn
03.25.2009

Scientists to Texas Board of Education: Teach Evolution Right!

Oakland, March 25

Over 50 scientific societies representing hundreds of thousands of American scientists today publicly urged the Texas Board of Education to support accurate science education. The board—dominated by creationists—has been embroiled in a debate over changes to the Texas science standards that could compromise the teaching of evolution.

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Glenn Branch
03.25.2009

Texas needs to get it right

As the Texas state board of education prepares for its final vote on a new set of state science standards, no fewer than fifty-four scientific and educational societies are calling for the approval of the standards as originally submitted — without misleading language about "strengths and weaknesses" and without the flawed amendments undermining the teaching of evolution proposed at the board's January 2009 meeting.

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Glenn Branch
03.23.2009

Brush awarded the 2009 Pais Prize

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NCSE Supporter Stephen G. Brush was selected by the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics to receive the 2009 Abraham Pais Prize for the History of Physics "for his pioneering, in-depth studies in the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century physics," according to a story in the spring 2009 History of Physics Newsletter.

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Glenn Branch
03.23.2009

Antievolution bill dead in New Mexico

New Mexico's Senate Bill 433 died in committee when the legislature adjourned sine die on March 21, 2009.

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Glenn Branch
03.23.2009

Understanding Evolution lawsuit over

On March 23, 2009, the Supreme Court denied certiorari without comment to Caldwell v. Caldwell, which challenged the constitutionality of the Understanding Evolution website — a joint project of the University of California Museum of Paleontology and the National Center for Science Education.

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