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EXCERPT: One of the latest victims of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian regime in Turkey isn’t a journalist, or dissident academic, but the concept of evolution. His government’s decision to erase Darwin’s idea—the bedrock of biology—from the high school curriculum will take effect in September (if a lawsuit against the move fails). Classes on evolution will, for now, still be taught at the university level. This is the apparent apotheosis of a recent trend to Islamize secular education in Turkey. [...]
[...] This is an outcome that fundamentalist Christians have wanted to bring about in the United States [...] How to fix this? They argue the U.S. needs its prospective biology teachers to take a course specifically on evolutionary theory [...] Requiring it [...] would [...] provide teachers “with more confidence to teach evolution forthrightly,” they write, “even in communities where public opinion is sympathetic to creationism”; and two, it would help weed out creationists who want to teach high school biology by either converting them or encouraging them to “pursue other careers.”
MORE: http://m.nautil.us/blog/how-to-weed-crea...of-schools
EXCERPT: One of the latest victims of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian regime in Turkey isn’t a journalist, or dissident academic, but the concept of evolution. His government’s decision to erase Darwin’s idea—the bedrock of biology—from the high school curriculum will take effect in September (if a lawsuit against the move fails). Classes on evolution will, for now, still be taught at the university level. This is the apparent apotheosis of a recent trend to Islamize secular education in Turkey. [...]
[...] This is an outcome that fundamentalist Christians have wanted to bring about in the United States [...] How to fix this? They argue the U.S. needs its prospective biology teachers to take a course specifically on evolutionary theory [...] Requiring it [...] would [...] provide teachers “with more confidence to teach evolution forthrightly,” they write, “even in communities where public opinion is sympathetic to creationism”; and two, it would help weed out creationists who want to teach high school biology by either converting them or encouraging them to “pursue other careers.”
MORE: http://m.nautil.us/blog/how-to-weed-crea...of-schools