Volume 22, Number 2
March/April 2006
Talking ’bout Evolution
High school science teachers share strategies for dealing with controversy in the classroom
By NANCY WALSER
Talking ’bout Evolution, continued
Talking ’bout Evolution: High school science teachers share strategies for dealing with controversy in the classroom
Talking ’bout Evolution
High school science teachers have long been at center stage when it comes to the subject of evolution. In 1925, Tennessee biology teacher John Scopes was convicted of breaking a state law against teaching that “man has descended from a lower order of animal.” The pendulum swung the other way in 1968, when Arkansas biology teacher Susan Epperson challenged a state law outlawing the teaching of evolution and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld her position.
In recent years, teachers across the country have been back on the defensive as challenges to evolution mount.
This is an excerpt from the Harvard Education Letter.
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High school science teachers have long been at center stage when it comes to the subject of evolution. In 1925, Tennessee biology teacher John Scopes was convicted of breaking a state law against teaching that “man has descended from a lower order of animal.” The pendulum swung the other way in 1968, when Arkansas biology teacher Susan Epperson challenged a state law outlawing the teaching of evolution and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld her position.
In recent years, teachers across the country have been back on the defensive as challenges to evolution mount.
