Michael Paul Goldenberg (2009) recently transmitted an "Open Letter
to the Texas Education Agency regarding science education and the
termination of Chris Comer" [Pennock et al. undated - I assume the
letter was written recently, but it's anyone's guess].
Pennock et al. wrote:
"As representatives of various scientific societies, we write to
express our deep concern about the recent termination of Chris Comer
from her job as Director of Science Curriculum for the Texas
Education Agency (TEA). According to press reports, Ms. Comer was
forced to resign for political reasons, directly after she forwarded
an email
announcement about a lecture critical of Intelligent Design (ID).
These reports are deeply troubling. Not only has Ms. Comer suffered
an apparently grave injustice, but it appears that members of the TEA
administration are willing to sacrifice standards of science
education in the state of Texas to partisan political ideology. This
is just the kind of
purging employed by Trofim Lysenko and other ideologues within the
Soviet Union during the Stalin era, when rejection of
well-established principles of Mendelian genetics set Soviet biology
back by 50 years. We fear that the stage is now being set for a
similar erosion of science education for a current generation of
Texas students. . . . . . . . . . . . . ."
Subscribers interested in the status of science education in Texas
might also be interested in:
a. "An Update On Evolution in Texas" [Cavanagh (2009)], and
b. "Sowing Atheism: The National Academy of Sciences' Sinister Scheme
to Teach Our Children They're Descended from Reptiles" [Johnson
(2009)].
Goldenberg, M.P. 2009. "An Open Letter to the Texas Education Agency
regarding science education and the termination of Chris Comer,"
Math-Teach post of 27 May 27, 11:29 AM (what time zone?); online at
<http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1942479&tstart=0>.
Johnson, R.B. 2009. "Sowing Atheism: The National Academy of
Sciences' Sinister Scheme to Teach Our Children They're Descended
from Reptiles." Solving Light Books Publishers. Amazon.com
information at <http://tinyurl.com/dcuma7>.
Pennock, R.T., J. Schmitt, D. Waller, R. Amasino. Undated. "An Open
Letter to the Texas Education Agency regarding science education and
the termination of Chris Comer," online at
<http://www.evolutionsociety.org/download/ComerLtr_RP_JS_DW.pdf> (80
kB).