Subject: Textbook attack in Louisiana
From: Robert Luhn <luhn@ncse.com>
Date: 11/12/10, 19:33
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

This just in: Louisiana's Textbook/Media/Library/Advisory Council met today and voted 8 to 4, recommending that the Board of Education and Secondary Education (BESE) adopt the high school life science textbooks that creationists have been opposing. In short, the Council endorsed the original recommendation from the science textbook committee.

But this is at best a brief victory. The real battle will come when BESE meets on December 9. Stay tuned.

Related note: today's op-ed in the Baton Rouge Advocate calls for keeping politics out of textbook adoption. http://www.2theadvocate.com/opinion/107375348.html

Check out Education Week's coverage, too: http://bit.ly/cHYHDF

...and

...NCSE board member Barbara Forrest's take on the issue: "Textbook Attack in Louisiana" at http://lasciencecoalition.org/

Yrs.,

rl

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