Priority in Texas for the education and health of children is very low. The school board is packed with fundamentalist Republican cronies of the gubernator, Rick Perry. This is one reason why one quarter of Texans don't finish high school. See where Texas ranks educationally at the National Report Card of Education. Thank goodness for people like Dr. Dan Foster at UT Southwestern where I work.
Opponents of Evolution Adopting a New Strategy
By LAURA BEIL
DALLAS — Opponents of teaching evolution, in a natural selection of sorts, have gradually shed those strategies that have not survived the courts. Over the last decade, creationism has given rise to “creation science,” which became “intelligent design,” which in 2005 was banned from the public school curriculum in Pennsylvania by a federal judge.
Now a battle looms in Texas over science textbooks that teach evolution, and the wrestle for control seizes on three words. None of them are “creationism” or “intelligent design” or even “creator.” The words are “strengths and weaknesses.” More...
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