{"id":4866,"date":"2011-02-09T10:17:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T09:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2011-02-09T10:17:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T09:17:29","slug":"teaching-evolution-in-american-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4866","title":{"rendered":"Teaching evolution in American schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/38048_Only_28_of_US_Biology_Teachers_Teach_Evolution\">blog posting<\/a>, it is highlighted that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the United States, only 28% of biology teachers consistently teach the principles of evolution as recommended by the US National Research Council<\/li>\n<li>Of 34 advanced nations, only Turkey has a lower proportion than the USA of people who reject the notion of evolution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An understanding of evolution is critical to an appreciation of all human and animal life on Earth and it is important that we all understand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/evolution.html\">the case for evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this fascinating blog posting, it is highlighted that: In the United States, only 28% of biology teachers consistently teach the principles of evolution as recommended by the US National Research Council Of 34 advanced nations, only Turkey has a lower proportion than the USA of people who reject the notion of evolution An understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4871,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions\/4871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}