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Help Us in the Final Push for Sound Science Textbooks in Texas
On Nov. 22, our Stand Up for Science campaign will come to an end. That’s when the Texas State Board of Education will take a final vote on adopting new science textbooks that will be in classrooms...
View ArticleThunderclap for Science
The conclusion of our year-long effort to protect science in Texas hangs on a final vote at the State Board of Education this Friday. And on Thursday morning when the board begins its crucial...
View ArticleBig Week for Science Education in Texas: Textbook Debate Moves into Its Final...
This week the State Board of Education decides whether the next generation of Texas public school students have textbooks that teach 21st-century science or junk science that once again makes the Lone...
View ArticleLive-Blogging the Texas Science Textbook Adoption Hearing
7:45 p.m. – Ok, folks. We’re going to hang in here until they finish, but we don’t expect you to. We’ll skip the live-blog tonight and post a recap tomorrow morning. We’ll watch so you don’t have to....
View ArticleCreationist ‘Think Tank’ Declares Defeat in Texas Textbook Battle — Days...
On Tuesday morning, the Seattle-based Discovery Institute mourned the failure to undermine the teaching of evolution in new science textbooks for Texas public schools. But that declaration of defeat...
View ArticleOil and Gas Industry Advocates Launch Surprise Attack on Texas Environmental...
When the State Board of Education‘s public hearing on new science textbooks for Texas public schools finally began late Wednesday night, it became clear that creationists were unable to mount a real...
View ArticleBig News: Science Education Advocates Thwart Late-Night Hijacking of Texas...
Today science education advocates have good reason to be encouraged by developments in Texas. But we’re not out of the woods just yet. After two hours of heated debate and nerve-wracking twists and...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Science Education Wins in Texas!
The State Board of Education just voted to adopt all of the high school biology and environmental science textbooks without watering down instruction on evolution and climate change. We just sent out...
View ArticleHow Science Won in the Texas Textbook Battle
Last week’s State Board of Education (SBOE) vote to adopt new science textbooks for Texas public schools represented an important victory for science education. But what you have been reading in the...
View ArticleCynthia Dunbar (Remember Her?) Says Teaching Texas Kids about Climate Change...
Remember Cynthia Dunbar? She’s the creationist former member of the Texas State Board of Education who wrote a book in which she called public education “tyrannical,” unconstitutional and a “subtly...
View ArticleEven More Good News on the Texas Science Textbook Adoption
As we have reported, the State Board of Education voted last month to adopt all of the high school biology textbooks up for adoption in Texas. The adoption of one of those textbooks, from Pearson...
View ArticleBreaking News: Texas Review Panel Rejects Creationist Objections to Pearson...
This year’s sweeping win for science education in Texas now appears to be complete. Multiple sources tell us that a special expert panel has given unanimous approval to the Pearson biology textbook...
View ArticleMore on That Texas Biology Textbook Review Panel
Josh Rosenau, programs and policy director at the National Center for Science Education, wondered how the creationist chairwoman of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) came to appoint a real...
View ArticleTexas Creationists Are Still Trying to Censor the State’s New Biology Textbooks
The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) adopted new biology textbooks for public high schools last fall, but anti-evolution activists are still trying to censor those textbooks. And they seem to be...
View ArticlePublisher to Texas Creationist’s Demands for Biology Textbook Changes: Not...
We now have Pearson Education’s response to claims that the publisher’s high school biology textbook for Texas public schools contains factual “errors” in its discussion of the genetic similarities...
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Texas Creationists Are Still Bullying Science Textbook Publishers
Evolution deniers don’t like it when science textbooks tell students the truth. And creationists were really unhappy last year when they failed to pressure publishers into undermining the teaching of...
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