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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Teaching evolution to hostile students
The New York Times has a pretty interesting Sunday magazine story about science teachers tackling the challenge of teaching the widely accepted scientific theory of evolution to students from religious backgrounds who find evolution in conflict with their literal interpretation of the bible. Check it out here.
This is a sticky issue that has been hotly debated here in Ohio. The big example in the story is from Florida, but all the same issues are faced by science teachers here. In the end, it is the teacher in the classroom and the students who are doing the learning that determine the effectiveness of government directives on evolution.
About three years ago, I had a Michigan-based science teacher who personally did not believe in evolution tell me the best he could do was teach it half-heartedly. Which had me wondering how many other classrooms faced that challenge?
Teachers out there, how do you or your colleagues handle this tricky territory?
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