tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893796119628724760.post8180985992569418566..comments2023-07-01T01:52:41.798-07:00Comments on Guys Lit Wire: How Texas affects everyone else's textbooksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893796119628724760.post-91975080681741148082008-06-10T21:53:00.000-07:002008-06-10T21:53:00.000-07:00Monkey Town is excellent - I reviewed it when it f...Monkey Town is excellent - I reviewed it when it first came out. It's fantastic historical fiction; really puts you right in the middle of all the drama.<BR/><BR/>Good call on the movie, too!Colleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18380722344521975869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893796119628724760.post-35486692523368244202008-06-10T20:23:00.000-07:002008-06-10T20:23:00.000-07:00What if we give everyone a copy of the play Inheri...What if we give everyone a copy of the play Inherit the Wind along with the film version, plus the novels Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature and Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial? (I have yet to read MT, but I loved Robin Brande's Nature.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893796119628724760.post-16945549969172636922008-06-10T12:32:00.000-07:002008-06-10T12:32:00.000-07:00"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Ligh..."Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" is a 1973 essay by the evolutionary biologist and Russian Orthodox Christian Theodosius Dobzhansky.<BR/><BR/>Would make a good title for a biology textbook. Want insight into human behavior? Read about chimpanzees in Jane Goodall's Through a Window!gonovicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11731194400029298160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893796119628724760.post-5254923470230357762008-06-10T08:46:00.000-07:002008-06-10T08:46:00.000-07:00This fight has been going on for decades, ever sin...This fight has been going on for decades, ever since the first Creationist lawsuit in 1966 in California. I've been a sometime player in it over the years, mainly writing articles about the conflict. Because of this, it's been easy for me to track the changing tactics the Creationists have used. They've gone from outright "evolution is satanism" through "equal time" arguments to simply packing the school boards with pro-Creationist members who hide their true affiliations until they're elected. (San Diego County held a referendum in the late 90s when the school board there pulled this trick, and to their credit they ousted the Creationists.)<BR/><BR/>It's a frustrating conflict. Even with major church denominations now embracing evolution, the radicals in the midst continue to wage war against science.trevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00543856054505338867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893796119628724760.post-47330379398196016562008-06-09T08:53:00.000-07:002008-06-09T08:53:00.000-07:00When I was credentialing to teach in California we...When I was credentialing to teach in California we were told/taught that it was standard practice for textbook companies to make two versions of every textbook: the Texas version and the California version. Depending on the nature of the state's education departments, publishers would present one or the other for adoption and the rest of the states would line up behind one or the other.<BR/><BR/>This was over 20 years ago, and some teachers I've spoken with tell me it's still pretty much the same. Perhaps some textbook publishers can only afford to cater to one or the other, but states like California and Massachusetts aren't likely to adopt a Texas-approved text, and that's a fair chunk of change there as well.david elzeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16653215150526146224noreply@blogger.com