Thread: Seriousness Science Literacy in the U.S.A.
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Old 04-15-2010, 09:09 PM   #73
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Originally Posted by dsvick View Post
There could be a charter school in Cleveland right now telling the kids all about evolution while a 20 minutes drive away there is a small rural school being told all about intelligent design, and evolution is mentioned as an also ran.
And like how the Texas Board of Education has now made Thomas Jefferson an also ran in their social studies curriculum.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/12/...its-textbooks/

Your example and mine highlight the major problem with allowing political/religious ideology to dictate what the "facts" are.
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