Laats, Adam (Professor of Education and History, Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership, Professor of Education and History, Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leade
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This book takes a new look at one of the most contentious periods in American history. The battles over schools that surrounded the famous Scopes “monkey” trial in 1925 were about much mo
This book takes a new look at one of the most contentious periods in American history. The battles over schools that surrounded the famous Scopes "monkey" trial in 1925 were about much more than evolu
Colleges, universities, and seminaries do more than just transfer knowledge to students. They sell themselves as "experiences" that transform young people in unique ways. The conservative evangelical
The idea that American education has been steered by progressive values is celebrated by liberals and deplored by conservatives, but both sides accept it as fact. Adam Laats shows that this widely hel
No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity’s origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its
No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity’s origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its