It would be a shame if they succeeded in replacing the teaching of science with indoctrination.
The government is going to withdraw all funding for the teaching of science and technology subjects.
He graduated from Harvard, received a master's degree in the teaching of science from Boston University and a doctorate in educational administration from Harvard.
And the religious right has done far more, in the name of "creationism," to retard the teaching of science in this country than any progressive curriculum.
"It's a national disgrace," said Rodger W. Bybee, director of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, which develops and evaluates science curriculums and promotes the teaching of science.
They outlined their concerns about what they called the "diminishing of the standards applied to the teaching of science in our universities" and "the increased teaching of pseudoscience".
"It's a platform designed to consider how gender issues affect the teaching of science, and issues such as genetic testing, or the way people deal with technology," Mr. DeFrantz said.
The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network (Stemnet), which promotes the teaching of science among young people, is seeing its funding from the Department for Education (DfE) cut from £2.2m to £1.5m.
Rita Colwell, director of the National Science Foundation, which is conducting several pilot projects to determine the best methods to improve the teaching of science, math and engineering, said she found the results "a little depressing".
At a time when the government is attempting to drive a wedge between the teaching of science and arts subjects, it's a relief to be reminded that children's authors suffer no such silly prejudices.
In a way, our peculiarly American failure to come to terms with Darwin's theory and what it's become since 1859 is a sign of something broader: our failure to come to terms with science and the teaching of science.
