The World is Watching: Teach the Evolution Controversy to Foster Science Literacy

Here's another reason to teach the scientific controversy over evolution: inquiry-based methods improve student engagement and learning -- and U.S. science education needs a jumpstart like that.

More than fifty science and engineering organizations, including the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, recently signed a letter to the two major party presidential candidates asking twenty questions about pivotal scient...