Eric Pallant believes the most environmentally-sound way to teach environmental science is to get rid of the textbooks. This past academic year Mr. Pallant, an environmental-science professor at ...
Science and faith are sometimes in harmony with each other, but often there have been bitter disputes. Pope John Paul II finally settled the Catholic Church’s famous dispute with Galileo by formally ...
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the American Geological Institute (AGI) a grant of $998,000 to develop an environmental science textbook for high-school students ...
In the first class of the 2005-2006 school year, after calling roll and introducing myself and co-professor Terry Bensel, I told our students they were participating in an experiment. An experiment ...
The textbook at the center of the suit is “Environmental Science: Creating a Sustainable Future,” by Daniel D. Chiras. The book, which is in its sixth edition and has been taught in many colleges and ...
Under pressure from the American Chemistry Council, a lobbying group for the plastics industry, schools officials in California edited a new environmental curriculum to include positive messages about ...
AUSTIN -- In a bitter vote along party lines, the State Board of Education on Thursday tentatively rejected two of three high school environmental science textbooks after conservatives criticized them ...
The State Board of Education voted Friday to adopt two of three proposed new environmental science textbooks for grades 9-12. By a vote of 10-5, the first textbook since 1995 was rejected by the SBOE.
The Saucon Valley School District adopted a new environmental science textbook Tuesday in spite of claims by one board member that it contains "alarmist" climate change "propaganda." At the meeting, ...
A set of proposed life-science textbooks in Louisiana appears on track for adoption by the state’s school board, despite complaints that the materials don’t provide information questioning the theory ...