Science Standards

• In-Depth Article

  Academic Freedom Under Fire in Scotland

  Sept. 12, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Nobel laureates petition Scottish government to prohibit teachers from presenting creation science as alternative to evolutionism.

• Textbook Market Likely to Take the Reins of Education

  April 20, 2013 from News to Know

  As publishers plan to implement NGSS science standards, textbook market will likely take the reins of education.

• Magazine Department Article

  A Victory for Balance in Tennessee

  Oct. 1, 2012 from Answers Magazine

  Tennessee has joined Louisiana as a state that encourages students to exercise their critical thinking skills about evolution and other subjects.

• The Teach-the-Controversy Approach

  Sept. 15, 2012 from News to Know

  A Teach-the-Controversy approach is good for education, good for science, and truly better for both sides.

• Influencing Next Generation Science Standards

  May 19, 2012 from News to Know

  You are invited to influence the Next Generation Science Standards.

• Louisiana’s Science Education Act Weathers Challenge

  April 28, 2012 from News to Know

  Louisiana’s Science Education Act weathers challenge.

• Tennessee Law Guarantees Teachers’ Rights to Teach Controversies in Science

  April 14, 2012 from News to Know

  Tennessee’s new law guarantees teachers’ rights to teach the controversies in science.

• The Teacher Protection Academic Freedom Act

  April 12, 2012

  Tennessee teachers will soon have legal protection to teach students about genuine scientific controversies. The bill passed by a three-to-one margin and should take effect on April 20.

• To Teach What Needs to be Taught

  March 31, 2012 from News to Know

  Academic freedom to “teach the controversy” in Tennessee awaits the governor’s signature.

• Tennessee Schools

  April 16, 2011 from News to Know

  Teachers in Tennessee’s public schools may join those in Louisiana in being allowed to teach critical thinking skills when examining topics such as evolution.

• More Trouble in Texas

  March 28, 2009 from News to Know

  Texas and evolution seem to be popular sibling topics in the news these days.

• Texas Curriculum Fuels Evolution Debate

  Jan. 24, 2009 from News to Know

  The debate is still raging over how the science curriculum is being “messed with” in Texas.

• A Mess in Texas

  Jan. 23, 2009

  In the Lone Star State this week, the science curriculum has been “messed with” by evolutionists in what has become the latest battle in the creation/evolution wars in America.

• Magazine Department Article

  Standard Thinking in Florida’s Schools

  July 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine

  The board of education in Florida has approved new standards that will strengthen the teaching of evolution in public schools.

• Louisiana Bill Promotes Objective Discussion of Scientific Theories

  June 21, 2008

  Louisiana is poised to be the bane of evolutionists everywhere by promoting “critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of scientific theories.”

• Florida Passes Bill to Allow Critical Analysis of Evolution

  May 10, 2008 from News to Know

  Despite a series of losses, the movement to allow more open discussion of evolution in public school classrooms hasn’t been silenced.

• Florida Now Supports the Teaching of Evolution

  Feb. 23, 2008 from News to Know

  The Florida Board of Education passed standards for science education that, for the first time in the state’s history, support the teaching of “evolution.”

• Magazine Department Article

  Academic Non-Freedom

  April 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine

  In the U.S. states of Michigan and Ohio last fall, evolution activists emerged victorious in public schools.

• Evolution “restored” in Kansas?

  Feb. 15, 2007
• Was Kansas Pro-Creationism?

  Aug. 5, 2006

  Did evolutionists triumph in the the Kansas school board primaries? Was the alternative really between creation and evolution?

• Darwinists Descend on Ohio and Kansas in Ongoing Origins Battle

  Feb. 9, 2006

  Now that the intelligent design (ID) debate is over in Dover (Pennsylvania), Darwinists are descending upon Ohio as their next target in the ongoing battle over teaching origins.

• Kansas: More Radical than Pennsylvania?

  Jan. 26, 2006

  AiG speaker Carl Kerby was approached by many Kansans last weekend who wanted to discuss the still-simmering controversy over the teaching of biological origins in public schools.

• ACLU Watching Utah Origins Bill

  Jan. 25, 2006

  As a bill has been developed in Utah dictating what state science teachers can discuss about the origins of human life, the ACLU has been watching the developments.

• Doubting Darwin in Kansas Classrooms

  Nov. 10, 2005

  Kansas State Board of Education approved (by a 6-4 vote) a new set of science standards.

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