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Tag Archives: Gerald Skoog

Review: ‘Galileo Goes to Jail’ by Ronald L. Numbers (ed.)

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurJanuary 6, 2010Leave a comment

January 6, 2010 Ronald L. Numbers has long been at war with the war metaphor. For more than two decades, Numbers has argued that conceptualizing the relationship between religion and science as a battle between powerful opposing forces is “neither useful nor tenable.” In Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion…

The Weight of the Moon or How a Single Textbook Skewed Our View of History

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurNovember 29, 20096 Comments

November 29, 2009 In the 1950s and 1960s, Moon, Mann and Otto’s Modern Biology was the most popular high school biology textbook in the country, commanding upwards of 50% of the market. It was also among the most retrograde and out of date. Scholars have criticized the book for its weak presentation of the topic…

The Topic of Evolution in Secondary Schools Revisited

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurNovember 25, 20094 Comments

Updated 15 February 2010 A new analysis of high school biology textbooks shows that emphasis on the topic of evolution decreased sharply in the decade ahead of the Scopes trial (1925). However, contrary to the conventional scholarly view [1], relative priority of the topic retuned to pre-Scopes levels by 1935 and did not decrease significantly…

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