Monthly Archives: October 2012

The Revisionaries, the documentary about the battles over evolution education at the Texas state board of education, will be playing at the Sarasota Film Society’s 23rd Annual Cine-World Film Festival (flip to page 26 in the book). The screenings will … Continue reading →

— Florida has STEM jobs, but not grads to fill them: “Despite the [large number of job] openings and [Gov.] Scott’s commitment to bring similar so-called STEM jobs to the state, Florida universities aren’t coming close to graduating enough students … Continue reading →

A runoff election for a spot on the Hillsborough County School Board is an interesting one. Carol Kurdell is facing off against a person well known to us here at Florida Citizens for Science: creationist Terry Kemple. Hard-working insider, conservative … Continue reading →

ATLANTA — Having denounced evolution as a lie “straight from the pit of hell,” Republican Rep. Paul Broun has won himself a new political opponent: Charles Darwin. Now scientists are questioning whether Broun, a medical doctor and Baptist from Athens, … Continue reading →

— Researcher advocates ‘student-centered’ approach to science education: A group of educational researchers at Florida State University are drawing widespread attention after their paper measuring the superior results of a more “student-centered” approach to teaching science was published in the … Continue reading →

There are two public input workshops coming up during which you can give your opinion on how the new science FCAT and Biology end of course exams (and Geometry) are scored. You can go to Tallahassee tomorrow or West Palm … Continue reading →

— UCF receives $1.8 million for new program to encourage students to study math, science: “The UCF program aims to recruit students partly by offering some freshmen a course that will introduce them to a variety of STEM-related careers. Students who take the class, which … Continue reading →

— Yup, I know. U.S. Representative from Georgia Paul Broun is on a science committee and yet denies basic science: “All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight … Continue reading →