Jezebel republishes an article that makes an interesting comparison:
Like Texas, many of the same states that resist comprehensive sex ed are the same places that pride themselves on loose laws for gun ownership. Gun-rights advocates maintain that straight-forward education, not regulation and licensing, is the best way to keep kids safe.The National Rifle Association leads [...]
I read this on Pharyngula today and… Wow. I’m not even going to comment on it. I’m just going to let you read it:
“PRIMARY school students are being taught that man and dinosaurs walked the Earth together and that there is fossil evidence to prove it.
Fundamentalist Christians are hijacking Religious Instruction (RI) classes in Queensland [...]
I know Daniel gets a little bit annoyed at me sometimes for being quite proud of my country’s secular ways, but I’m putting that down to jealousy over stories like this one:
“Answering questions from MPs on the Commons education select committee on Wednesday, Mr Gove [Michael Gove, UK Education Secretary] said: “One of the most [...]
by VorJack
The newest battle over creationism in the schools may take place in Louisiana. You may remember a small flap over Governor Bobby Jindal’s passage of the 2008 Louisiana Science Education Act, which allowed school boards to approve supplemental material to be added to the science curriculum. Several watchdog groups predicted that it [...]
Shamelessly stolen from ryedo, a UF commenter who posted a link to this video on Monday on another thread. I thought it was a work of minor genius and deserved a thread all of its own — thanks ryedo!
by Edman
As a resident of the Southern US, I tend to make the mistake of thinking that the power struggle between fundamentalists and secularists is confined to my region, and that the rest of the world is somehow a little more enlightened. A UF reader has kindly sent in a letter informing us of a [...]
by VorJack
I tell ya, I LIKE this kid …
Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn’t taken a friend’s advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old’s biology lessons.
Mule’s precocious daughter Elizabeth excels at science and has been studying tarantulas since she was 5. But she watched Elizabeth’s excitement turn to [...]
Educated women have fewer children, are wealthier and are less likely to accept fundamentalist extremism. If we want a safer world, we should consider the utility of spending dollars on educating young people as an alternative to troops and weapons.
—Lawrence M. Krauss, “How Women Can Save the Planet“
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