.... Findings include a detailed portrait of teachers' understanding of evolution-related laws and the time they devote to teaching evolution. Our results indicate that the majority of surveyed teachers devote >13 hours of instruction per class semester to evolution and teach evolution either as a unifying...

.... education system. Strategies for avoiding controversy, confronting misinformation, and distinguishing science from non-science are provided. A similar case was brought against a Louisiana law with similar but vaguer wording. This case also landed in the U.S. Supreme Court. In that case, Edwards v...

.... Strategies for avoiding controversy, confronting misinformation, and distinguishing science from faith are provided at the end of this article. The history of case law makes clear that laws prohibiting the instruction of evolution or marrying it to some form of creation science are unconstitutional...

... for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2015 Hypothesis law nature of science prediction science education science teaching theory I taught high school...

... creationism, intelligent design, or other alternatives to evolution in the classroom are violating the law. The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously declared Arkansas’ anti-evolution statute prohibiting the teaching of evolution unconstitutional because it violated the Establishment Clause ( Epperson v. Arkansas...