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> For example, it's pretty common to this day for some school districts around the country to skip over teaching evolution. Is this actually common? The argume
by lelanthran 11mo ago
> For example, it's pretty common to this day for some school districts around the country to skip over teaching evolution.
Is this actually common? The argument is quite common, but I expected that the actual number of schools who do this is a very very tiny number.
- Telaneo 11mo agoI'd imagine the same; skipping evolution entirely is hard. Dismissing it however, is not that uncommon. > Between 2007 and 2019, there definitely was progress: from 51 percent of high school biology teachers reporting emphasizing evolution and not creationism in 2007 to 67 percent in 2019. It was matched by a drop from 23 to 12 percent of teachers who offer mixed messages by endorsing both evolution and creationism as a valid scientific alternative to evolution, from 18 to 15 percent of teachers who endorse neither evolution nor creationism, and from 8.6 to 5.6 percent of teachers who endorse creationism while not endorsing evolution. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evolution-education-in-the-u-s-is-getting-better/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evolution-educati...