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		<title>Florida law: history is fact&#8211;not constructed</title>
		<link>http://tonywhitson.edublogs.org/2006/09/24/florida-law-hist-etc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Whitson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>wikis and/as textbooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Whitson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>evolution=atheism=religion=unconstitutional?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Whitson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Waxman letter on SMART Grants for Evolutionary Biology majors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Whitson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Traipsing&#8221; authors on BookTV Aug 26-27</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Whitson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Evolutionary Biology to be restored to list</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Whitson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 ..."]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s get Congressman Castle on the case</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Whitson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
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