Sentences with phrase «force public school science»

«During the past year, religious fundamentalists have intensified their effort to force public school science classes to include instruction in «creationism.»

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The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

Ohhh, is that what you were doing in the Dove school district when Christians tried to force creationism into the public school science curricula?

It is conservative Christianity that is trying to force Biblical creationism, or its nasty offspring, intelligent design, down the throats of the American public in public school science and biology classes.

Christians have voted to put their God's name on everyones money, add «Under God» to the flag salute, force schools to teach intelligent design with absolutely no scientific basis along side the sciences, voted to write their moral laws on the fronts of public courthouses and tax funded buildings, voted to ban certain people from living together, being intimate or raising children because their orientation didn't fit with their bible beliefs.

They seek to force their religious mythology into our public school science classes.

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

Are you denying that Christians have forced some public school systems to include creationism in their science curricula?

The Royal Society has joined forces with Professor Brian Cox, the Society's Professor of Public Engagement, to help primary school teachers across the UK to introduce creative experimental science lessons into their classrooms.

The 2017 - 18 Section 99k - Cybersecurity Competition Event Grant is made available to public school districts that provide pupils in grades 6 - 12 with expanded opportunities to improve computer science skills by participating in cybersecurity competitive events hosted by Mertit Network, Incorporated, known as Michigan High School Challenge, or hosted by the Air Force Association, known as Cyberpaschool districts that provide pupils in grades 6 - 12 with expanded opportunities to improve computer science skills by participating in cybersecurity competitive events hosted by Mertit Network, Incorporated, known as Michigan High School Challenge, or hosted by the Air Force Association, known as CyberpaSchool Challenge, or hosted by the Air Force Association, known as Cyberpatriot.

Incessant testing with no relation to the real world, the mindless collection of trivia classified as data, forcing a «business model» like Enron or Lehman Brothers or General Motors on the public schools, driving the arts and the social sciences out of the curriculum, and watching every Chancellor, Superintendent, Commissioner, and Secretary of Education promote charter schools over their own public schools at every turn.

If forced to name a single educational skill set that all learners should have as part of their coursework, Grauer feels a greater emphasis on real computer science will have the greatest impact on future learners, even going so far as to suggest that knowledge of coding should be taught in public schools, almost as a foreign language.