The big secret of the debate over teaching evolution is that leading science education authorities agree that students learn the science best when they learn about scientific disagreements
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Knowing that ENV's readers include many teachers and other educators, I thought I would offer a brief teaching idea, especially for those who have their students submit papers to SafeAssign or some similar plagiarism-detection software.
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This article will look at a just a few of the many distressing instances where textbooks overstate or misrepresent the evidence for evolution.
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Many textbooks surveyed contained what I would call "faux-critical thinking exercises," where students are asked to investigate the evidence, but only in a one-sided fashion.
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Unfortunately, as this review has made clear, biology textbooks have a long way to go. Parents, students and educators who seek accuracy and objectivity in evolution-education will have to continue to be a "royal pain in the fanny" of textbook publishers.
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Governor Perry of Texas wrongly thinks public schools in his home state teach creationism, but he seems unaware that his own education commissioner is trying to stifle scientific criticisms of Darwin.
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