+ - Tennessee senate passes "monkey bill"-> 1
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Layzej
Layzej writes "The Tennessee Senate has passed a bill that allows teachers to "teach the controversy" on evolution, global warming and other scientific subjects. Critics have called it a "monkey bill" that promotes creationism in classrooms. In a statement sent to legislators, eight members of the National Academy of Science said that, in practice, the bill will likely lead to "scientifically unwarranted criticisms of evolution." and that "By undermining the teaching of evolution in Tennessee's public schools, HB368 and SB893 would miseducate students, harm the state's national reputation, and weaken its efforts to compete in a science-driven global economy,""
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The time has come (Score:2)
Since TN and other states are prepared to dumb down their teaching of Biology, it is essential that universities across the country institute policies that will test the students from TN and similar states before they are admitted into university level Biology courses. Otherwise, US competitiveness in the biological and medical sciences will be lost to foreign competition, should standards for science be lowered across the board. College accrediting agencies need to remodel their accreditization policies