Decades of chronic underfunding and inequitable funding have been spiraling Pennsylvania's public school system into crisis--failing kids and threatening the future of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth Court has ruled that the state's current funding system for K-12 schools is unconstitutional and the state must take action to adequately and…

Evolution offers an intellectually satisfying and extremely well-supported explanation for the diversity of life in the natural world, its similarities and differences, how changes occur and how new life forms have developed. There are plenty of reasons to anticipate the teaching of evolution with exhilaration. In recent years, the issue of…

While many states are handling evolution better today than in the past, anti-evolution pressures continue to threaten state science standards. In April 2012, for example, Tennessee passed a law that enables teachers to bring anti-evolution materials into the classroom without being challenged by administrators. This law is similar to the Science…

This study investigates how evolution versus intelligent design is handled in the public, private Christian, private Jewish, and Christian Home-school K-12 settings through a review of the current literature and by interviewing teachers in these educational venues. Fourteen public, private, and homeschool educators responded to an interview…

Although some competent paleontologists question the role of natural selection in evolution, they do not question question evolution itself. (Author/JM)

Summarizes the Arkansas Creation Trial, which found the law requiring teachers to give balanced treatment to evolutionary ideas and creation science unconstitutional. A Canadian who was a witness at the trial expresses his concern regarding the threat of creationism in Canada and gives three reasons why Canadians must oppose creationism. (RM)

An advocate of scientific creationism states arguments for its inclusion in the public school curriculum. (MLF)

A scientist states that creationism may have a place in the schools, but as a theological doctrine, not as a scientific theory. (Author/MLF)

Provides information on a Capitol Hill briefing entitled "Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design and Its Implications for Public Policy and Education". (ASK)

A review of the literature, accomplished through a computerized search of the "Science Citation Index," revealed that even scientific creationist "researchers" do not publish studies that support their basic assumptions, except in unrefereed journals not included in the index. (Author/WD)

Discusses recent evolution education literature and highlights key themes and perspectives recognized in the scientific community but only minimally exposed within either the science classroom or the science education research agenda. Discusses recommendations to address these important omissions within the science educator community. Contains 61…

Explains the evolution controversy in Tennessee and the Scopes trial which broke anti-evolution law in 1925. Points out that science education still carries the same conflict 75 years after the Scopes trial. (Author/YDS)

Statistics are offered to "prove" odds against the origin of life. Presents a summary analysis of all known examples to be used to check these claims whenever they are brought up in conversations, debates, books, or articles. Addresses scientific work misused by anti-evolutionists and the pseudoscientific assertions of the…

Discusses the Scopes trial and other important court decisions associated with the teaching of evolution and creationism in public schools. Suggests that an understanding of these decisions can help teachers answer students' questions about teaching these subjects and also to counter the anti-science attitudes and actions of creationist parents,…

Argues that there is a place in the classroom for both the scientific facts of evolution and the mystery and beauty of creation metaphors. (MM)