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Creationism, Science And The Purpose Of Higher Education

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 11.30.2011

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Perhaps those godless experts at Christian colleges aren't godless at all. Perhaps accepting the basics of biology need not call anyone's faith into question.

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Texas Textbooks to Finally Tell U.S. History Right

Chris Michael | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Our children need to be taught how our number one Founding Father, George Washington, was called to action by Jesus and died defending the Alamo," said Republican board member Terri Leo.

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Creationism In Texas: A Bit Of Good News Followed By A Ton Of Bad

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas Freedom Network, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Fte, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Evolution, Texas State Board of Education, Science Education, Texas, Texas Board of Education, Separation of Church and State, Religion News

It's frightening that these are the "experts" the Texas State Board of Education wants to review science materials. Their positions are well beyond non-science and have entered the realm of nonsense.

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Send In The Creationist Clowns And Watch Science Education Suffer

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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The circus is coming back to town! The host will (again) be the Texas State Board of Education as it continues its assault on science education across the state of Texas.

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Texas Curriculum Changes Prompt Civil Rights Groups To Seek Review Of Public Schools In Lone Star State

AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 05.25.2011

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HOUSTON — Two civil rights organizations are seeking a federal review of public school education in Texas, accusing state school administrators ...

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Academic Freedom in High School and Kindergarten

David Moshman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High School, Academic Freedom, Student Rights, Intellectual Freedom, Children's Rights, Texas State Board of Education, Kindergarten, Education News

Perhaps we can't run a kindergarten like a college, but we can provide students of all ages with a curriculum determined by teachers and other experts on academic grounds and encourage them to figure things out.

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Our Ignorance and Our Interests: Why We Need to Learn More, Not Less, About Islam and the Arab World

James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas Textbooks, Texas, Islam, Education, Arabs, Muslim, Texas State Board of Education, World News

How did we get into the situation in which we knew so little about a world where we had so much at stake? As I note in my new book, Arab Voices: What they Are Saying to Us and Why It Matters, it all begins with education -- or the lack of it.

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Help Build A Mosque

Rev. Chuck Freeman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ezekiel, Texas State Board of Education, Islamophobia, Prophet Ezekiel, Texas State Board of Education Islam, Religion News

"Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off." (Ezekiel 37:11) My God, I relate to this! I am weary to the bones of making statement...

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Ignorance, Not Islam, Is The Enemy

Posted 05.25.2011

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By John L. Esposito and Sheila B. Lalwani Religion News Service (RNS) In a single vote, the Texas State Board of Education managed to undermine Chris...

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The Texas State Board of Education Embraces Islamophobia

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas Education, Islamophobia, Texas Freedom Network, Islam, Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Ken Mercer, Texas State Board of Education, Religion News

Islamophobia, the virulent strain of religious hatred that has been spreading like wildfire across the country, is set to put in an appearance at the Texas State Board of Education.

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Overturning the Texas School Board Madness? It's Possible

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Creationism, Texas Politics, Ken Mercer, Carrie Prejean, League of Women Voters, Evolution, Texas Republican Party, Rebecca Bell-Meterau, Texas State Board of Education, Religion News

No member of the Texas State Board of Education has damaged the state's educational system more than the anti-intellectual Ken Mercer. And now, voters have the opportunity to put an end to his embarrassing actions.

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Redefining The Creation/Evolution Controversy

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

The Clergy Letter Project, comprised of thousands of clergy members and scientists, demonstrates that religious leaders and scientists are not inherently at odds.

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What's Bigger Than a Texas Ego?

Karie Meltzer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today, CNBC named The Lone Star State America's Top State for Business in 2010. We topped Virginia, who won last year. But, a look at where we stand in other areas leaves me feeling underwhelmed about this victory.

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Tarballs and Tainted History

Rachel Farris | Posted 05.25.2011

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Education is quickly draining out of Texas classrooms, and as the oil spill made its way onto Texas beaches this weekend, word of the brain-drain that is our State Board of Education has most certainly gotten out.

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The Times They Are A-Changin': Good Evolutionary News from Oklahoma

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is hope for science education when locales that have been bastions for creationism begin to recognize that creationism is not scientific and that evolution is not a threat to religious belief.

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A Socialist Primer: Rick Perry, Health Care & the Texas Governor's Race

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 05.25.2011

I'm wondering what it's going to take for my former colleagues in the Texas press corps to call out Rick Perry for using the term "socialism" over-and-over to describe the insurance reform Congress passed last week.

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When Faith Trumps Reason: the Curse of Scientific Illiteracy

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Steeped in the wasteland of scientific illiteracy we in Texas descend ever further toward a theocracy, in danger of becoming the Iran of the West, or a bad copy of the former Soviet Union.

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And Carter Thought He Faced National Malaise

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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The U.S. seems to have already begun its own "lost decade." Unlike Japan, the U.S. is expending its precious resources on fighting two debilitating wars and maintaining a declining empire. If we're lucky we will be "lost" only for a decade.

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Last Call for Social Studies

Karie Meltzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Mcleroy, Texas, Education, Conservatives, Austin, Religious Right, Democrats, Texas State Board of Education, Republicans, Politics News

The Texas State Board of Education will hear the final public testimony and take a final vote on social studies standards (think guns, God and government) for public school textbooks.

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Deep in the Heart of Textbooks

Daniel Cluchey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don-Mcleroy, Texas, Fundamentalism, Joseph McCarthy, George Orwell, Revisionist History, Textbooks, Thomas Jefferson, Texas State Board of Education, Politics News

Turning public school social studies classes into unabashed propaganda sessions goes beyond mere political ugliness. It is craven. It is foolish. It is madness.

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An Open Letter to the Texas Board of Education From a Survivor of Its Public School System

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

As someone who received nearly my entire education -- grades 2-12 -- in the Texas public schools system, I must admit that I don't understand what all the fuss is about.

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Dear Texas State Board of Education: Please Shut Up. Sincerely, History

Mark Morford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Maybe you didn't hear? The little item about how a small pod of pale ultra-conservatives in Texas has just demanded a whole slew of specific changes be made to history textbooks down in the Lone Star State?

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Texas School Board

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Social Darwinism: A Bad Idea With a Worse Name

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

If there's no connection to evolution, then why is it called social Darwinism? It shouldn't be -- and it's time we changed the name to stop the confusion.

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Texas Textbook MASSACRE: 'Ultraconservatives' Approve Radical Changes To State Education Curriculum

Posted 05.25.2011

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AUSTIN, Texas - A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, histo...

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