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Texas Public School Requirements: Reading, Writing and the Bible
The Texas legislature passed a bill (80(R) HB 1287) in 2007 requiring all public school districts to offer “elective courses on the Bibles Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament and their impact on the history and literature of western civilization” starting in the 2009-2010 school year.
Prior to this there have been a number of [...]
Fort Wayne highschoolers sound off about evolution/creationism
Michael B. just pointed me to a recent article in today’s Journal Gazette called, rather obliquely headlined, “Species of education: Evolution teaching, beliefs vary for two local students“.
Reporter Jaclyn Youhana talked with two local students about how they felt about their evolutionary science education in high school. Because Indiana Department of Education rightly says that [...]
At least we don’t live in Texas
Our “atheist prophet”, PZ Myers, posted a really great video about the Texas State School Board, and where many of the candidates stand on teaching evolution and creationism to children in schools. Needless to say, it’s not looking good. Republican Gail Lowe, running for re-election to the board, says she will never support the adoption [...]
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