Word: evolutionism
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Gould excels at using the familiar to introduce the arcane. The flamingo of Florida postcards and golf courses seems to smile because it feeds with its head upside down. The adaptation suggests that evolution does not always take the easiest way up. Sex Researcher Alfred Kinsey developed his investigative skills...
But California made good this month when the state school board notified eight publishers that it would not accept in present form the junior high science texts they offered for adoption. The reason: inadequate treatment of human reproduction, ethics (in treating subjects like pollution) and, most glaringly, evolution. The state...
California's textbook-development director Francie Alexander charged that "there's just less and less information about evolution" in publishers' recent offerings. The Charles E. Merrill Principles of Science, for example, meekly allows that Charles Darwin developed "a theory that explains why there is a great number and variety of...
Why the pedagogical pussyfooting? Evolution is controversial, says Honig, "and publishers kept watering it down until children couldn't understand what evolution was." Indeed, over the past decade pressure from believers in the literal truth of the Bible's creation story prompted many of the 22 states with textbook adoption...
Educators have been slow to ask for a better balance in how such controversial topics are handled or to insist on better writing throughout the books. In 1974 the California board decided that discussion of creation dogma belonged in social studies classes, not science classes. But it was not until...