Twists and Turns in Teaching Evolution over the Years

Glenn Branch, National Center for Science Education

EvoS Seminar
Monday, 5:15 PM, S1-149
March 9, 2020

About the Seminar

Controversies over the teaching of evolution in the public schools have rocked the nation over the past century. Evolution's foes have consistently used the same arguments, but their ambitions have shifted, from banning the teaching of evolution through balancing it with a supposed alternative to belittling it as scientifically disputed. In his talk, Glenn Branch of the National Center for Science Education will discuss the causes, history, and consequences of these controversies, with a special emphasis on events in New York.

About the Speaker

Glenn Branch is the deputy director of the National Center for Science Education and a coeditor of Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools. He is the author of numerous articles on climate education and evolution education in such publications as Scientific American, The American Biology Teacher, and Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics.

All are welcome. For more information, contact Dr. Rolf Quam, EvoS Director, rquam (@) binghamton.edu, or Susan Ryan, EvoS Coordinator, sryan (@) binghamton.edu