Obscenity and Creationism
The New York Times has a brief article today about how creationists in Cobb County (GA) and Dover (PA) are plowing ahead despite setbacks in their attempt to bring religion into public school science classes.
The school board in Dover, Pa., south of Harrisburg, had an administrator read a one-minute statement to ninth graders in biology class yesterday saying evolution is not fact and offering a different approach called "intelligent design."
Ninth-grade science teachers at Dover Area High School, who are critical of the statement, have refused to read it to their students. It was read instead, to six classes, by the district's assistant superintendent yesterday and is to be read to three more classes today.
In Georgia, the Cobb County school board, which was ordered by a federal judge last week to remove from textbooks a sticker that says evolution is "a theory, not a fact" has voted to appeal.
Now, there are different philosophies of science education. Indeed, there isn't any one best way to teach science - it depends on the goals, the students, the teacher . . . Nevertheless, like obscenity in the famous quote, good science teaching is something most people can recognize when they see it - and I'm sure the same is true for bad science teaching.
This is not good science teaching.
C'mon! Administrators reading one-minute statements?! Warning stickers plastered on textbooks?! This is just embarrassing, guys!
posted by Dan S. on 9:29 PM
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Definitions, definitions
1. ". . . one of North America's most distinctive kinds of wetlands . . . characterized by spongy peat deposits,
acidic waters, and a floor covered by a thick carpet of spagnum moss."
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2. A relentless, hard-driving mix of political commentary, recipes, idle ramblings, and so on.
More about bogs here.
Something about the blog format made me think of spagnum moss slowly growing, forming layer after layer of peat deposits many feet thick, sometimes preserving (in Europe) ancient bodies . . . Also, it rhymes.
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Songs currently stuck in my head
despite all my best efforts
"My Happy Ending," by {yech} Avril Lavigne:
"Let's talk this over,
It's not like we're dead . . "
and "Laiska" by Varttina:
Laiska luotu laulmann
oikosormi soittamaan
yskin oita viettelen
unetonna laulelen
Toppling off the bedside book-pile:
Classroom Management for Middle-Grades Teachers , C.M. Charles & Marilyn G. Charles
Teaching U.S. History as Mystery, David Gerwin & Jack Zevin
Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska, William W. Fitzhugh & Aron Crowell
Arctic Crossing: A Journey Through the Northwest Passage and Inuit Culture, Jonathan Waterman
Northern Tales: Stories from the Native People of the Arctic and Subarctic Regions, Howard Norman (ed.)
Life in the Cold, Peter J. Marchand
Wandering Through Winter, Edwin Way Teale
The Winter Vegetarian, Darra Goldstein
Teas of the week:
Tea of Good Tidings: Winter Fruit Blend,
The Republic of Tea
Russian Caravan,
Jacksons of Piccailly
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