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University culture wars recall the fight to teach evolution
In May 1921, the University of Wisconsin in Madison hosted an anti-evolution lecture by popular pundit William Jennings Bryan - who later became famous for arguing in the Scopes monkey trial in Tennessee, about teaching evolution to schoolchildren. Bryan demanded that Wisconsin's instructors stop teaching evolution, and that Birge personally affirm a belief in creation as described in the biblical Book of Genesis. Today's push for conservative control of universities is just as ambitious. [...]today's scholars are more vulnerable: higher-education budgets are depleted, and some university departments and programmes are simply being eliminated, notjust criticized.
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Fundamentalist U : keeping the faith in American higher education
Adam Laats offers a provocative and definitive new history of conservative evangelical colleges and universities, institutions that have played a decisive role in American politics, culture, and religion. This book looks unflinchingly at the issues that have defined these schools, including their complicated legacy of conservative theology and social activism.
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University culture wars over race theory recall 1920s fight to teach evolution
Arguments for quality work better than quibbles over facts.
Arguments for quality work better than quibbles over facts.
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Evolutionary change over time: The history of history in US fundamentalist school publishing
Jenna Scaramanga and Michael Reiss, in their article, “Evolutionary stasis: creationism, evolution and climate change in the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum,” examine multiple editions of science materials produced by Accelerated Christian Education, ranging from the 1980s to the 2010s. They find that the materials offer a profoundly limited vision of science education, one dominated more by a desire to stress a particular religious message than by the goal of teaching central scientific ideas. And though the publishers altered a few ideas here and there—such as eliminating some arguments for creationism that had been discredited even among young-earth creationists—the materials overall showed a surprising “evolutionary stasis” over time.
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SCOTUS, Schools, and History
In recent years, justices on the US Supreme Court have made explicit historical arguments about US schools in order to promote a broader role for religion in US public schools. For example, in Espinoza v. Montana (2020), Chief Justice Roberts cited the late historian Carl F. Kaestle to buttress his arguments, but did so in a way that misrepresented Kaestle’s nuanced account. This article compares the justices’ historical arguments to the best evidence from the historical record. The essay argues that historians of education—whatever their political beliefs—can and should guide policy by providing reliable, accurate historical information.
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AN ETERNAL MONKEY TRIAL? EVOLUTION AND CREATIONISM IN U.S. SCHOOLS
When it comes to creationism, it might seem as if the United States is trapped in a century-long culture-war rut. In a sense, the Scopes Trial of 1925 put science itself on trial, and it can seem as if every new dispute over teaching evolution is only a repetition of that famous trial. In truth, however, the power of creationism has ebbed dramatically over the past 100 years. Adam Laats examines the history of creationist activism and describes the radical diminution in the power of creationism in America’s public schools.
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