Sentences with phrase «controversy over the teaching»

The passport backlog at the Home Office and the controversy over teaching in Birmingham schools are much more significant than any of the problems currently facing the Labour leader.

The process is reigniting controversy over the teaching of evolution.

Not exact matches

Schools should also pay more attention to the philosophical issues raised by the controversy over creation and evolution — although attentiveness should not mean sneaking in sectarian teaching of religion under the subterfuge of «scientific creationism.»

In the synoptics, the controversies were largely over what he said and taught concerning the law.

If I needed to understand and teach Christological controversies over Christ's two natures in the hypostatic union, I was going to need to understand metaphysically bold propositions about «hypostases.»

The popular seminar speaker and his ministry had weathered moral and financial controversies, as well as scrutiny over his teachings, in the past.

Park's mission is complicated by the controversy over his stop - and - go delivery, a style frequently taught in South Korea to distract hitters.

Apart from the controversy over Emmanuel College Gateshead a couple of years ago it simply isn't an issue here — we don't have the same brand of vocal Christianity here, we don't have a written constitution that can be used for court challenges over the issue and we don't have a long history of battles over the teaching of evolution.

The famous «controversy» over racial IQ, I thought I'd been taught, was about what causes the differences in racial test scores, not about whether those differences exist in the first place — and on that topic Watson really hadn't offered an opinion.

«Discussing American science literacy without mentioning evolution is intellectual malpractice» that «downplays the controversy» over teaching evolution in schools, says Joshua Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has fought to keep creationism out of the science classroom.

Are your current students aware of (or do they care about) the controversy and court battles that erupted over teaching evolution?

Former «Superhead» of Hackney schools federation and Department for Education (DfE) advisor Greg Wallace has been banned from teaching over an IT contract controversy.

In a great blog post today inspired by a current controversy in New York over the «appropriateness» of teaching Ancient Civilizations to first - graders, Dan Willingham takes on the latter:

Despite some public controversy over this, teachers indicated that they are already devoting significant proportions of time to teaching such texts in their classrooms.

The religious studies GCSE caused controversy last November, when three parents took the Department for Education (DfE) to court over the wording of a paragraph in the new subject content, claiming that it «gave unlawful priority to the teaching of religious views as compared to non-religious views, including those of humanism».

Controversies have since popped up all over the country: Indiana has adopted legislation that «pauses» implementation of the standards, although some teachers are already teaching to the new standards.

Even despite public controversies over the inclusion of climate change in state science standards, «Americans overwhelmingly support teaching our children about the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to global warming — in all 50 states and 3,000 + counties across the nation, including Republican and Democratic strongholds,» according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (April 11, 2018).