When a federal court in 2005 rejected an attempt by the Dover, Pa., school board to introduce intelligent design as an alternative to evolution to explain the development of life on Earth, it sparked ...

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America Tennessee was the center of the national debate when it prosecuted John Thomas ...

Creationists are right—in some cases. They are not right that the world is only 6,000 years old, nor that our species descended from two innocent ancestors in an Iraqi garden. They are not right when ...

According to the Georgia Department of Education, the word evolution is a "controversial buzzword" that should be removed from the state's biology curriculum. In this hour, we'll take a look at ...

Educators involved in curriculum design know one hard truth: you can’t fit in everything. Whatever the finished product, there will always be someone who thinks something important has been missed or ...

A woman wears a graduation cap in a sunflower field at Grinter Farms on Sept. 6 near Lawrence, Kan. (Charlie Riedel/AP) Analysis by Philip Bump It is, to put it mildly, an uncertain time. That ...

More than 200 faculty members at 20 Iowa colleges have signed a statement opposing a proposed state law that would give instructors at public colleges and schools a legal right to teach alternatives ...

Illustration of study design for exploring the impact of conflict reducing evolution education practices on student acceptance of evolution. Students in biology classes accepted the theory of ...

This fall’s James McCormick Mitchell Lecture will be delivered by UB professor John Henry Schlegel, whose talk, “Reflections ...

In case you haven’t heard, the latest edition of the journal Evolution: Education and Outreach is almost entirely about transitional fossils. There’s something for everyone, from synapsids to ...

Kellie Phillips hasn't taught the kinetic theory of matter to sixth-graders before, but her students will learn about it next year. The problem: Missouri's grade level expectations calling for the ...