Textbooks

Articles About Textbooks

• Magazine Article

  Below the Surface

  

  July 1, 2023 from Answers Magazine

  The undercurrent of Critical Race Theory is tugging students away from the truth of God’s Word. How should parents and educators respond?

• Magazine Department Article

  Course Correction in Korea

  Oct. 1, 2012 from Answers Magazine

  A change to science textbooks in Korea is causing an uproar.

• Creationist Wants Book Banned from Local School District

  April 10, 2010 from News to Know

  A creationist in Tennessee wants a book “banned” from use in his local school district. What’s the argument?

• Magazine Department Article

  Losing Out in Louisiana

  June 3, 2009 from Answers Magazine

  The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology moved its conference from New Orleans to Salt Lake City.

• Textbooks Gone Astray

  June 27, 2008

  Many new U.K. textbooks mention creation in their pages for the first time. There is, however, no cause for celebration about this mention, as the books nearly always get their facts wrong.

• Cobb County Textbook Stickers Gone for Good

  Dec. 21, 2006

  The Cobb County school board has decided to end a long legal battle over having stickers stating evolution is a theory and not a fact in high school biology textbooks.

• “When Darwin Went Down to Georgia”

  Nov. 19, 2004

  The battle over evolution is on again in Cobb County, GA, USA. While it’s not quite Scopes II, the encounter is showing that evolutionists haven't been able to make their case to the American people.

• Evolution Disclaimer on Trial

  April 8, 2004

  A textbook disclaimer that evolution is ‘a theory, not a fact’ will go to trial, a US federal judge has ruled in Georgia.

• Don’t Mess with Texas!

  Sept. 30, 2003

  In spite of efforts to prevent outsiders from telling the Texas Board of Education how to teach biology and evolution, the finger of outsiders was evident throughout the hearing proceedings.

• Pastor Prefers the Profane over Pandas and People!

  May 8, 2000

  At an extraordinary school board meeting in Kanawha County, West Virginia, the topic of creation versus evolution was brought up in the context of what is appropriate reading for high school students

• Media Coverage Grows over Textbook Controversy in W. Virginia!

  April 18, 2000

  As we have been reporting on this website, one of the major ongoing Ceation/evolution controversies in the United States is being played out in a West Virginia county.

• Creationism Bill Passes in Oklahoma!

  April 12, 2000

  Science textbooks used in the public schools of Oklahoma may soon be required to state that “human life was created by one God of the universe.”

• WV County Shaping up as Creation Vs. Evolution Battleground!

  April 1, 2000

  School board members in a West Virginia county are divided over whether to purchase textbooks that present the concept of “intelligent design” as an alternative view to evolution.

• Teachers’ Committee Makes “Intelligent” Choice!

  March 17, 2000

  West Virginia is another state where the creation/evolution issue is heating up.

• “Religious Bigotry” in West Virginia?

  Jan. 27, 2000

  Almost three months after a controversial resolution was voted down by the Kanawha County school board in West Virginia, three creationists find themselves in another public controversy.

• Support Grows for Oklahoma’s Disclaimer About Evolution

  Nov. 24, 1999

  The disclaimer states that evolution is a theory, not fact, and is an "unproven belief that random, undirected forces produced a world of living things."

• If It’s Okay for Kansas, Is it Okay for OK?

  Nov. 16, 1999

  By now we all know what really happened in the science classes in Kansas, right? Now, Oklahoma has joined the fray!

• Magazine Article

  Led by the nose

  March 1, 1999, pp. 48–49

  Textbook reports on creatures that walked on structures extending from their nose!