The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, meanwhile, says: ‘Where topics are taught that may generate controversy (such as biological evolution), the curriculum should help students to understand the full range of scientific views that exist.’ That opening also could allow for the inclusion of intelligent design. Intelligent design: Is it just creationism lite?
Publik Skule vs. Home School Doug Giles January 8, 2005 It’s been eleven months since we pulled our teenage daughters out of the public school system and started to home school them, and I could kick myself for waiting so long. The educational, emotional, spiritual and physical progress they have made has been amazing. Not
Shortage of girls forces China to criminalise selective abortion By Simon Parry in Hong Kong (Filed: 09/01/2005) The Chinese government is to make the selective abortion of female foetuses a criminal offence and will ban parents from obtaining ultrasound scans to discover their unborn baby’s sex, in an attempt to tackle an unwanted side-effect of
PBS has pulled from its website a science film examining the theory of intelligent design, after selling the film for two years on its website, and airing it on dozens of PBS stations across the country. ‘It’s chilling that suddenly in the midst of a national debate over intelligent design PBS, funded by taxpayer dollars,
London, Jan. 7 (Reuters): Christian protesters set fire to their television licences outside the BBCs London offices today as outrage spread over the public broadcasters plans to air a profanity-laden musical. In the award-winning London show Jerry Springer The Opera, viewers can watch a diaper fetishist confess all to his true love, catch a tap
A Tennessee politician is decrying efforts to increase government regulation of home schooling in his state. Several Tennessee lawmakers intend to introduce legislation this year that would require home-schooled students to take the same state-mandated achievement tests as their peers in public schools. But State Representative Bill Dunn of Knoxville, who has home schooled five
Tension is simmering between Egypt’s Muslim and Christian communities after allegations of forced conversions to Islam.” Sidhom said Christians in Minya had long been appealing for permission to build a church. “Finally, out of desperation, they tried to modify an existing building, when they were attacked by Muslims who tried to destroy it,” he said.
‘We have acquired intelligence that our relief groups in Indonesia and some other areas are becoming a possible target of terror attacks,’ South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Lee Kyu-hyung said. In response to the intelligence, South Korea sent out requests to countries where their relief workers are asking them to take security measures for South
Controversy over Christian band revisited in Rossford The Rossford school board has called a special meeting tonight with its attorneys to discuss issues involving Pawn, the Christian rock band restricted from playing during school hours. Board Vice President Mike Spahr said the board will meet at 5:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria, 701 Superior
Atheist activist Michael Newdow has filed a request for an injunction from the U.S. District Court to bar engaging in Christian religious acts related to President Bushs inauguration. ‘This is the day we have been warning America would come,’ said Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition. The coalition and other leading