Patti Howell had thought long and hard about this moment in her 10th-grade biology class. She had spent months subtly preparing her students for it, had agonized and worried about it, had even ...

A visitor to the "Darwin" exhibit inspects a display with illustration of animals, plants and insects during a press preview at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, in this Nov. 15, ...

On Wednesday, the Texas State Board of Education signed off on a preliminary version of the state's pared-down biology curriculum and voted to keep language that challenges the theory of evolution.

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The chairwoman of Brainerd's school board this week questioned the teaching of evolution and suggested that it's incompatible with Christian beliefs. "I did have a question about evolution," Sue Kern ...

One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ...

In Idaho, lawmakers removed references to climate change from the state’s science standards. In Alabama and Indiana, they passed resolutions urging support for educators who teach “diverse” views on ...

“What should students learn?” It’s the perennial question that has launched a thousand schools, and then some. While there is general agreement on the broad strokes of what’s worth teaching, the ...

THIS YEAR marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of his treatise, "On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favoured ...