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I have recently received requests from a couple people who want to make this available to their students but were not able to retrieve it from my earlier post on their list. So here it is again in a more permanently accessible location.

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Maybe all students would be better off if they could use wiki-style textbooks developed by, say, scientists and science teachers, or historians and history teachers, instead of the textbooks being marketed by commercial publishers.

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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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Congressman Waxman demands answers and correction on the omission of Evolutionary Biology. The list is being corrected, but there are continuing concerns, and we must urge Congressman Castle to investigate …

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Two of the authors of Traipsing into Evolution, will be on CSpan-2’s BookTV this weekend in a 90-minute program airing 3 times: first at 7pm EDT Saturday, with final showing midnight Sunday night.

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Evolutionary Biology is being restored to the list, but concern remains over “potential dangers of having the Department of Education involved in curricular matters,” rather than “the National Academy of Sciences or some other autonomous body …”

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