Sentence examples for evolution in curriculum from inspiring English sources

After that, said Joshua Rosenau, a project director for the National Center for Science Education, he began noticing that attacks on climate change science were being packaged with criticism of evolution in curriculum initiatives.

The legal incentive to pair global warming with evolution in curriculum battles stems in part from a 2005 ruling by a United States District Court judge in Atlanta that the Cobb County Board of Education, which had placed stickers on certain textbooks encouraging students to view evolution as only a theory, had violated First Amendment strictures on the separation of church and state.

The results indicate that about 30percentt of Americans believe that creationism should be taught as a scientific theory, either with or without evolution in the curriculum.

In this fictional re-creation of the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925 — in which a Tennessee high-school science teacher was tried for including Darwin's theories of evolution in his curriculum — Drummond stands for freedom of belief.

The article describes how Florida came to include evolution in the curriculum.

biology because of the centrality of evolution in its curriculum after it underwent a major revision based on recommendations from reports from the National Research Council (2002a, b).

Specifically, does acceptance of evolution as a valid scientific theory correlate to increased instructional time for evolution in the curriculum and/or willingness to teach macroevolution in addition to microevolution?

What helps to alleviate their concern is not a defensive citation of the importance of evolution in the curriculum or the practical repercussions for the school, but a respectful engagement with their worry.

Similarly, Asghar et al. (2007) report that lack of specific content knowledge among teachers has a negative effect on the decision of whether to include evolution in their curriculum.

Finally, we want school board members and administrators to understand why teachers should include evolution in their curriculum, and we want teachers to know that their leaders are aware of the state science standards and are supportive of their implementation, particularly with respect to teaching evolution.

*In Kansas, after the backlash against the traditional biblical creationism, proponents of the design theory have become the dominant anti-evolution force, though they lost an effort to have theories like intelligent design considered on an equal basis with evolution in school curriculums.