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...edge on the school board, which promptly dropped the effort to revise the curriculum. In the 2004 election, however, conservatives retook the board, and while a curriculum advisory committee kept the science standards intact, a group of conservative educators is again trying to weaken evolution's place in the classroom. When public hearings begin in February, this group hopes to push through a more critical view of Darwin's theory, highlighting evolution's perceived flaws...
...from a Sunday-school classroom upstairs wafts the sound of 70 angelic young voices rendering a still shaky but clearly heartfelt version of Away in a Manger...
...overbearing bias is a problem that needs to be addressed. The fact that it is not even seen as a serious concern is indicative of just how deep and institutionalized this political imbalance has become. Things need to change. Bias should be kept to a healthy minimum in the classroom, and schools need to make a much more serious effort to recruit faculty that better reflects the full range of this country’s political views...
...many students can attest, liberal bias is not a neutral element. It makes itself quite clear in the classroom. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni recently published a survey of the nation’s top schools showing that 46 percent of students think professors “use the classroom to present their personal political views;” seventy-four percent say professors make positive comments about liberals, and 47 percent think they make negative comments about conservatives...
Subjection to the overt personal political views of professors in a classroom setting is not education. No discipline can claim that a logical and essential conclusion of its objective study must be a political position. A professor’s diatribes against President Bush or veiled endorsements of Democratic policies are not lessons of a positive science; they are personal opinion. If presented at all, they should aired separately from what is viewed as the objective lesson and accompanied by a contrasting point of view...