Creationist Publisher Says No Plans for Pandas Redux
Pandas publisher withdraws from Texas supplemental materials review
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Damn You Auto-Correct: Creationist Edition
Creationist textbook publisher, who once got caught doing a sloppy revision of its materials, wants to submit “supplemental materials” for the classroom.
Read MoreReligious Right Dream of Privatized Public Education Gets Boost
“Reform” in the interest of cost cutting does what 30 years of activism has not yet been able to do.
Read MoreMerry Kitzmas! Marking An Evolutionary Victory
It was five years ago today that a federal judge revealed intelligent design as a fraud.
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Studying Religion is Suddenly Popular
The premise that Religious Studies was a weak blend of esotericism and elitism prior to recent years—but is reviving through putting all that in the past—is wrong on factual grounds. More perniciously, if this analysis informs institutional strategies in an era of downsizing, it could be downright dangerous for the future of the discipline.
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Religion and Science: Busting Assumptions
Despite these publicly marked divides, the field of religion and science cannot easily be described by sticking a “vs.” between the two words. Rather than an ideological battle in which, as Hawking states, one side of the ring will “win” over the other, for some, the question is about how the two sides might work together.
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Schools Should Compete for Cash, Obama Says
Winners and losers: that’s what we’re left with in the winner-take-all society. No one is suggesting that U.S. public education is not in need of serious research-based innovation; the question is whether staging a race by dangling $3.6 billion dollars over the heads of freaked-out and desperate state and local school authorities is the way to go.
Read MoreWelcome to the “Career College” Scam
The latest way to cheat both the poor and the taxpayer…
Read MoreCross-Burning Hearing Ends, Trial Set to Begin
Teacher accused of using Tesla coil to burn a cross into the arm of a student.
Read MoreClaremont and the Agony of the Seminaries
It takes a whole lot of creativity to keep the doors open these days.
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