New Orleans schools ban creationist curriculum, shun Texas revisionist textbooks
New Orleans schools ban creationist
curriculum, shun Texas revisionist textbooks
by Robert T. Gonzalez
Sanity wins this round — at least for six schools in New Orleans. By a unanimous vote, N.O.’s Orleans Parish School Board voted on Tuesday to keep creationism out of its classrooms. Hallelujah.
“No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach any aspect of religious faith as science or in a science class,” reads a measure released by the School Board earlier this week. “No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach creationism or intelligent design in classes designated as science classes.”
The new policy also takes a deliberate stand against Texas’s conservative revisionist curricula:
curriculum, shun Texas revisionist textbooks
by Robert T. Gonzalez
Sanity wins this round — at least for six schools in New Orleans. By a unanimous vote, N.O.’s Orleans Parish School Board voted on Tuesday to keep creationism out of its classrooms. Hallelujah.
“No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach any aspect of religious faith as science or in a science class,” reads a measure released by the School Board earlier this week. “No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach creationism or intelligent design in classes designated as science classes.”
The new policy also takes a deliberate stand against Texas’s conservative revisionist curricula:
No history textbook shall be approved which has been adjusted in accordance with the state of