It provides a comprehensive view of the NAACP's evolution, policies, and achievements from 1909-1970.
Eugenie Scott and Glenn Branch have addressed this question of opt-out policies specifically including evolution (policies that they wittily label with the pointed acronym OOPSIE), showing some of the reasons why this proposed "compromise" is ill advised.
Once the sectarian goals are out in the open, it often becomes clear to cooler heads that politicians and courts have been in this position many times before, and that the anti-evolution policy is unwise because the government's job is to teach science in science classes, and let people make up their own minds on religious issues.
"Theory not fact" language, at issue in both the Kitzmiller case and the Selman v. Cobb County case (in which evolution disclaimer stickers in textbooks were ruled unconstitutional), traces right back to anti-evolution policies in the 1920s (Scott 2006).
If applied, these recommendations will also provide lessons on the evolution of policy implementation successes and failures as well as tools to assist policy-makers in evaluating and planning current and future policies.
They didn't win every fight, and they were prodded by court decisions and public outrage, but the gradual evolution of policy was clear.
His research has appeared in Science, Nature, Conservation Biology, Ecological Monographs, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Foreign Policy, Homeland Security Affairs and other leading journals, magazines, and newspapers.
In fact, it rejects a key belief of the Hoover Institution itself which argues on its website that: "a free flow of competing ideas leads to an evolution of policy adoptions and associated consequences affecting the well-being of society".
