Wolves at the door
Tags: EVOLUTION (Biology) -- Study & teaching; KANSAS. Board of Education; CREATION -- Study & teaching; CURRICULA (Courses of study)
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- Dorothy, It's Really Oz. Gould, Stephen Jay // Time;8/23/1999, Vol. 154 Issue 8, p59
Discusses the decision of the Kansas Board of Education to remove evolution and the Big Bang theory from the state's science curriculum, as of August 23, 1999. What the new standards consist of and the impact they will have on the central concept of biology; The teaching of creationism; Details...
- Darwin in Kansas. // America;09/18/99, Vol. 181 Issue 7, p3
Editorial. Discusses the approval of a science curriculum by the Kansas Board of Education for elementary and secondary schools which omits any mention of the evolution of species theory. Implication of teaching creation science and evolution in the United States; Pope John Paul II and Catholic...
- 'Loophole' Seen Spurring Push for Alternative to Evolution. P. W. // Education Week;2/24/1993, Vol. 12 Issue 22, p8
The article focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively banned creation science from the science classroom contains a loophole that creationists are using to press public schools to include alternatives to evolution in the curriculum. The Court struck down a Louisiana law...
- Dorothy, It's Really Oz. Gould, Stephen Jay // Time International (South Pacific Edition);8/23/99, Issue 34, p53
Discusses the decision of the Kansas Board of Education to remove evolution and the Big Bang theory from the state's science curriculum, as of August 23, 1999. What the new standards consist of and the impact they will have on the central concept of biology; The teaching of creationism; Details...
- `Evolution' Loses Its Grip. Roberts, Paul Craig // Insight on the News;09/13/99, Vol. 15 Issue 34, p44
Reports on the action taken by the Kansas State Board of Education regarding the teaching of evolution as an explanation for the origin of life. Information on macroevolution and microevolution; Claims of evolutionists; Rationale behind the belief of biology teachers and scientists on evolution.
- America's Anti-Evolution Movement. Moore, Randy // Academic Questions;Spring2002, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p69
Discusses attacks on the teaching of evolution in schools in the United States. Certain states' encouragement of teachers to avoid evolution or to pretend that it does not exist; Attacks by creationists on the teaching of evolution; Legal decisions involving the creationism-evolution controversy.
- Evolutionary Excesses: A Response to Moore. Barr, Stephen M. // Academic Questions;Spring2002, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p79
Comments on an article by Randy Moore in the journal 'Academic Questions,' about the evolution-creationism debate in the United States. Reasons why many people oppose the teaching of evolution; Criticism of the way evolution is taught; Limits of the right to decide for other people what their...
- Kansas kicks evolution out of the classroom. Dalton, Rex // Nature;8/19/1999, Vol. 400 Issue 6746, p701
Concentrates on the Kansas Board of Education decision to stop the study of evolutionary biology in public schools. The response of Kansas governor Bill Graves; Concern over the future of Kansas students regarding their college prospects; The assertion that the decision is part of a campaign by...
- Evolution critics seek role for unseen hand in education. Gura, Trisha // Nature;3/21/2002, Vol. 416 Issue 6878, p250
Focuses on the debate regarding the teaching of evolution and creationism in American schools in Cleveland, Ohio. Inclusion of 'intelligent design' in biology lessons; Protests of scientist; Views of Stephen Meyer and Jonathan Wells on 'intelligent design.'
