Monday, November 29, 2004
Science Friday:Archives By Topic
US radio discussion of scientific issues - I've just been listening to debates about teaching evolution in public schools in the US (sad or what? while making sandwiches for school lunches) - earlier this evening BBC radio 4 had an interesting piece on City Academies in the Uk, which raised some interesting questions about the "material base" as they say of the notorious creationist one in Middlesborough (contracts to family members, reduction in really deprived students, above-average rate of expulsions...) Of course the issues are separate but when the fundamentalists arer coming, its interesting to see certain hallowed practices revived under a modernising guise. Poor old New Labour.
US radio discussion of scientific issues - I've just been listening to debates about teaching evolution in public schools in the US (sad or what? while making sandwiches for school lunches) - earlier this evening BBC radio 4 had an interesting piece on City Academies in the Uk, which raised some interesting questions about the "material base" as they say of the notorious creationist one in Middlesborough (contracts to family members, reduction in really deprived students, above-average rate of expulsions...) Of course the issues are separate but when the fundamentalists arer coming, its interesting to see certain hallowed practices revived under a modernising guise. Poor old New Labour.
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