By Barbara Forrest

The National Center for Science Education is the national clearinghouse for assistance with fending off creationist attacks on the teaching of science. NCSE was incorporated in 1983 “to provide a central information and resource clearinghouse, helping to coordinate the efforts of people working at state and local levels to preserve the integrity of science education.” Headquartered in Oakland, California, it provides help at no cost to parents, teachers, school boards, educational administrators, and concerned citizens who need help in protecting public school science education.

National Center for Science Education — A Small Organization with a Big Mission

Despite having been thoroughly discredited in the first intelligent design creationist legal case, Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District (2005), the Discovery Institute has redoubled its efforts at the state level by attacking both state science standards and by coordinating the introduction of creationist legislation as “academic freedom” bills. Working with the Louisiana Family Forum, the Discovery Institute targeted Louisiana, and now our state is the first — and so far the only — state to adopt a version of DI’s perversely mislabeled “Model Academic Freedom Statute on Evolution.”

You can join NCSE online. Please join today and help protect the teaching of science in our public schools. Your state could be next.