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Bobby Jindal as Director of National Science Foundation? « Diane Ravitch's blog

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Bobby Jindal as Director of National Science Foundation?

A science teacher read the post about the textbooks used in some of Louisiana’s voucher schools. As we know, Governor Jindal is eager to pay public money to send children in Louisiana to religious schools that teach creationism as fact. So is Republican candidate Mitt Romney, who looks to Jindal as an education expert and who praises vouchers for religious schools. The teacher writes:
Hopeful Monster Theory!!!!! Since when is there any such thing outside of the creationists imagination.  The