Evolutionary reluctance

[image error]In the most recent issue of Penn State's Research magazine, which I receive because I'm a member of the National Association of Science Writers, there was a little article that caught my eye. It was titled "High school biology teachers reluctant to endorse evolution in class."

I find this concept somewhat shocking. According to the article, "the majority of public high school biology teachers are not strong classroom advocates of evolutionary biology … despite forty years of court cases that h...