Another one of those reports. You know the drill. Half of students surveyed did not answer the correct half-century for the Civil War. Etc. See
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27576,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Fred Hess & AEI: What Students Don’t Know
February 26, 2008 – 7:24 pm
evolution in Corpus Christi seat on TX state Bd of Ed
February 26, 2008 – 5:29 pm
The Corpus Christie area Caller-Times reports on how the teaching of evolution may be affected by the GOP primaries next week.When asked “How do you think the Texas school system will be influenced by the debate between creationism and evolution?“
Schönborn & Ratzinger on Evolution, Creation, and “Intelligent Design”
February 25, 2008 – 1:04 am
This program will be re-run this weekend:
Upcoming Schedule
Sunday, April 13, at 9:30 AM EDT
Sunday, April 13, at 2:00 PM EDT
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This weekend I heard the talk by Christoph Cardinal Schönborn at Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California, given February 15, 2008, and aired this weekend on CSpan2/BookTV (where it might be re-aired in [...]
Discourses, genres, and other “form fields”
February 24, 2008 – 8:31 pm
From physics, we know about magnetic fields, gravitational fields, electrical fields, and other fields of physical force.
If curriculum is the semiosic activity or course of experience in which human being comes to form, then curriculum theory and curriculum studies must be concerned with the fields of semiosic forms guiding the formation of human persons, [...]
Wired: Evolution Wins as Creationists (Accidentally) Switch Sides in Florida
February 20, 2008 – 4:38 pm
On the Wired blog, Brandon Keim reports:
The Florida Board of Education officially upheld evolution yesterday.
The board didn’t quite mean to do that, of course. In a 4-3 vote, the Board accepted a proposed curriculum that replaced all references to evolution with the phrase “the scientific theory of evolution.” In so doing, the board inadvertently made [...]
Negative Implications Of No Child Left Behind: As Graduation Rates Go Down, School Ratings Go Up
February 18, 2008 – 8:10 pm
ScienceDaily (2008-02-16) — Texas’ public school accountability system, the model for the national No Child Left Behind Act, directly contributes to lower graduation rates, according to new research. Each year Texas public high schools lose at least 135,000 youth prior to graduation — a disproportionate number of whom are African-American, Latino and English-as-a-second-language students.
The study [...]
intelligent exaptation
February 18, 2008 – 6:51 pm
At The Hive of Lost Memories, a post on “the evolution of grocery bags” provides a superb example of exaptation, from outside the realm of biological evolution:
Plastic or paper? I first heard of the question after a couple of days of my arrival to the United States when I was out with my brother [...]
eclipsed evolution vote in Texas
February 18, 2008 – 4:42 pm
Turnout for Huckabee, who supports Chuck Norris in promoting use of the Bible as a textbook in the public schools, could have an impact on State School Board elections that most of us outside of Texas don’t even know about.
more on Expelled
February 9, 2008 – 9:41 pm
For anybody interested in the source, it’s in Augustine’s book The literal meaning of Genesis (where Augustine explains that Genesis does not literally mean what “literal” Creationsists claim that it means).
