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Should educators help students understand their chosen subjects within a broader context of learning? Mark Coleman has been experimenting with this in his biology course and shares his findings so far ...

I claim in the first place, then, that in the ways suggested the teaching of biology in the high schools may have a direct effect upon the conduct of a community, in leading it to oppose the ...

Teaching biology in Kansas is a job only slightly better than inspecting manure or being a human lab rat, according to the new issue of Popular Science. The magazine ranked the Kansas biology teacher ...

Has teaching biology been your calling and dream career that you always wanted to pursue? As a biology teacher, you can inspire your students to appreciate the beauty of the world’s many life forms, ...

The next day, Strode showed his students—all seniors—their aggregated results. On some questions, the students were mostly in agreement. More than 80 percent of them, for example, correctly marked ...

BIOLOGY, as here considered, is not that of the specialist in zoology or botany, but rather that for which a place is claimed in the general education of all pupils, and especially of those in primary ...

Systems Biology is an approach to biology and medicine that has the potential to lead to a better understanding of how biological properties emerge from the interaction of genes, proteins, molecules, ...

In recent years, US courts have consistently ruled that teaching explicitly religious alternatives to evolution in public schools is a violation of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. But ...