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So, let’s all get to work and contact Congressman Castle, encouraging him to get to the bottom of this matter, and to make sure that the Department takes whatever corrective actions may be necessary to make sure that there will be no more efforts to sabotage education from within the Department.

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Although IDers like to claim that dogmatic Darwinists are trying to disallow people from talking about ID, that is of course not what’s going on. … Maybe they could talk about it in their French and Spanish classes–but of course only if they’re talking in the language that they are supposed to be learning in that class. …

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Is the modern science of biology ALL evolutionary, or is “evolutionary biology” just a sub-dicipline? (I’m raising this as a real question … not just a polemical maneuver.) …

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On August 20 the Coral Ridge Hour broadcast included a feature on “The ACLU vs. Creation in the Classroom,” featuring Anne Coulter and a number of others. The 7½-minute video is linked from their website …

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I have found it effective to begin with the problem of someone confusing the map for the territory (Korzybski, Bateson), and Bateson’s extension of this to somebody mistaking the menu for the meal (which conjures images of somebody walking into a restaurant and chomping on the menu). … As quickly as possible, we need to take the next step: realizing that curriculum is NOT the territory: It is, rather, the journey …

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My first posts on this blog will address the threshold question: What is curriculum?

For a start, I can do no better than to recycle this quotation from Maxine Greene, which I have often used in both my teaching and my writing.

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