Posted in education, law, media, philosophy, religion, science, tagged Creationism, Darwin, Intelligent Design, judgment, Kitzmiller vs. Dover, PBS, trial on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
This evening PBS aired “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial.” I sat riveted for the entire two hours. Fascinating looks at the people and testimony in the Kitzmiller vs. Dover case in Pennsylvania a few years ago, where the judge had to decide whether an effort to inject Intelligent Design (ID) into the school’s science curriculum was [...]
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Posted in education, law, tagged schools, students on March 5, 2006 | No Comments »
Fox News just aired a short discussion about schools suspending students because of what they (the students) posted on myspace.com. The question was whether schools had the right to do this.
The schools were acting within their rights if the activities occurred at school using school computers. The report, however, indicated that the alleged offenses occurred [...]
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I prefer the local take on Colorado teacher Jay Bennish’s remark comparing President George Bush to Hitler.
The national networks have quoted him out of context, failed to mention that his is an honors class in “human geography,” and implied strongly that the student walkout was an indictment when in fact it was, for the most [...]
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