2018 Annual Meeting, June 23rd: Glenn Branch
We are pleased to announce that Glenn Branch, Deputy Director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) will be the keynote speaker for our 2018 CESE membership meeting. Glenn has written extensively on issues of teaching evolution and climate change. He was instrumental in getting national press for the attempted weakening and politicization of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) by the PED. Glenn will answer the question;
Why Is It So Hard to Teach Evolution and Climate Change?
Saturday, June 23, 2018
1:30 PM
The UNM Anthropology Lecture Hall
FREE and open to the public
Directions: From Central and University, go north on University until you get to Las Lomas. Turn right, then right into the parking lot. The lecture will take place in the Anthropology building lecture hall, immediately south of the parking lot. Parking is free on Saturdays. We look forward to seeing you there.
A brief business meeting will follow Glenn's talk.
Glenn Branch to speak in Los Alamos on Friday, June 22nd
“Doubt and Denial as Challenges to, and in, Teaching Climate Change”
Glenn Branch, Deputy Director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), will be speaking on Friday, June 22, 2018 at 7 p.m., in Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, NM.
Sponsored by the Coalition for Excellence in Science and Math Education (cese.org)
Scientists overwhelmingly agree about the occurrence, causes, and consequences of climate change. But the public is not so sure. And science education is suffering as a result. Reviewing recent controversies over the place of climate science in state science standards and summarizing the results of a recent rigorous national survey of science teachers, Glenn will explain how doubt and denial about climate change are affecting science education.