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Maybe it would be helpful if we would more often and more loudly make the point that IF ideas derived from work on evolution were being taught in schools AS some kind of religious article of faith, THEN WE WOULD ALL AGREE THAT THIS WOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Once we have made that point clear, we can go on to clarify how very different that would be from the teaching that does go on in public school science classes.

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The Delaware/Philadelphia PBS station WHYY will rebroadcast the P.O.V. documentary “The Hobart Shakespeareans” on Saturday night/Sunday morning, September 3, at 12:30am. (It is not presently scheduled for broadcast again in MD or NJ the next two weeks. Elsewhere, check your local PBS affiliate.)
A piece by Jay Mathews on washingtonpost.com (Augus 6, 2006) features Rafe Esquith (whose [...]

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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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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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