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...always been not only respectful of the Ukrainian historical experience but in my Harvard classes, I teach the Ukrainian genocide in my human rights class,” he said. “I feel very, very strongly about the wrongs that have been done to the Ukrainians...
...Kansas has been at the center of the debate over intelligent design, the theory that natural selection cannot account for all of life’s evolution and that an “intelligent designer” must have guided the process. The Kansas Education Board recently voted to teach alternatives to evolution in the state’s science classes. Both professors said their courses will critically examine this viewpoint and teach students to distinguish between what they refer to as “science and psuedoscience.” John W. Hoopes, an associate professor of anthropology...
...constantly looking at our collections and trying to make sure what we have is useful for a teaching mission, and although this is a painting that we have had for a long time, it is not something we teach from, and it is something we haven’t used for a long time,” she said. “This motivated our decision to instead strengthen our holdings in a Cassatt drawing or print...
...institute, which represents more than 250,000 scientists, barely engaged in issues of public school education until about six years ago, Wake says. It has since embarked on several initiatives to help educators teach evolution effectively and to prepare schoolteachers for more challenges like the ones that have taken the stage in Pennsylvania and Kansas...
...divinity faculty—the heirs to that theological mission—reject the latest argument for God’s role in creation: “intelligent design.”The national debate about intelligent design marks the latest front in the battle between proponents of teaching creationism and evolution in public schools. The century-old debate, which reached a pinnacle in the media with the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial”, has surfaced anew with the emergence of intelligent design.Intelligent design refers to the theory that while evolution can explain some natural phenomena, other...