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South Dakota Bill Deemed by Critics to Threaten Education in Evolution and Climate Change

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South Dakota Bill Deemed by Critics to Threaten Education in Evolution and Climate Change

By Josh Zuckerman|2020-01-03T15:42:50-05:00January 27th, 2017|Blog|

According to the bill, “no teacher may be prohibited from helping students understand, analyze, critique, or review in an objective scientific manner the strengths and weaknesses of scientific information.”

What the City Lost in Almontaser

By Beena Ahmad|2024-08-02T16:35:52-04:00September 8th, 2009|Blog|

In August, 2007, Debbie Almontaser was the interim principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn, an Arabic language public high school she had worked with the New York City Department of Education for two years to establish. Though the school was secular (a point Almontaser sought to emphasize by naming the school for the famous Christian Lebanese poet), [...]