Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. Almost 100 years ago, science teacher John Scopes was convicted of violating a Tennessee law that prohibited teaching the ...

Teaching in the Age of Disinformation Propaganda and conspiracy theories are everywhere. What’s a professor to do?

MR. SPENCER’S treatise on education consists of four essays, originally contributed to English reviews, and first collected and published in this country in 1860. The first essay discusses the ...

Teachers have long had to decide whether to give conspiracy theories that students bring up any airtime in class. But a set of far-right theories known as QAnon has made those decisions even more ...

The right has an extraordinary opportunity to lead on education. But doing so requires offering a broader agenda—one that is coherent, appealing, and rooted in shared values.

The Ramona Unified School District is creating several restrictions on what is taught in the classroom in order to curb certain ideas about race and racism.The policies are two of many that are bei… ...

Summers is an associate professor of science education at the University of North Dakota. Scientific theory has had a rough time in America's public schools. Almost 100 years ago, science teacher ...

Recent state laws encourage teachers to question established scientific theories, undermining science education by equating them with unproven ideas.