education

More than a year after a high school student’s arm was burned by a Christian schoolteacher, John Freshwater, the story continues to change. While the family has settled with the school the Dennis family suit against Freshwater awaits trial while Freshwater has launched a counterclaim.

Backdoor attacks on science education hit the legislature.

A California court upholds summary judgement in ACSI v. Stearns, rules that the University did not discriminate unfairly when denying credit to students for particular high school courses.

A visit with Barbara Forrest, philosophy professor at Southeastern Louisiana U. and co-author of Creationism’s Trojan Horse.

Reverend Annett noticed that in spite of the large Native American population on Vancouver Island, none of them attended his church.

The conservatives who were frightened by Obama’s speech to schoolchildren weren’t afraid he’d say something radical—quite the contrary—they were afraid that the president would sound moderate and human. The real question, why did they buy the fear? is impossible to answer without considering religion.

Texas is the second largest purchaser of textbooks in the country. If conservative Christians on the Texas Board of Ed panel prevail in their wish to leave Ann Hutchinson (trouble maker!), Cesar Chavez, and Thurgood Marshall out of the social studies curriculum, all US schools could be affected.

Wendy Gonaver’s lessons on the American Constitution may soon include her own story: the refusal to sign a loyalty oath designed to root out communists in public jobs whose effect is to weed out religious believers, particularly Quakers and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

A new book on the Scopes “Monkey Trial” reveals history through people, images, and good old soap opera.

Can the jewel of black academia, the nation’s largest liberal arts college created to produce “exceptional black men,” continue to thrive while it fosters a deeply homophobic atmosphere?