(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

The derailment of the Next Generation Science Standards in Wyoming
continues to provoke comment. Plus a squeaker of a victory in
Oklahoma, and sad news of the death of Gerald Edelman.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A new webinar from NCSE is on the horizon. Oklahoma takes a further
step toward derailing its new science standards. A new issue of
Reports of the NCSE is available on-line. Plus South Carolina adopted
a new official state fossil without pandering to creationists, and
both antievolution bills in Missouri are now dead.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Discouraging news about Oklahoma's new state science standards, but
encouraging news from South Carolina on the official state fossil
front. And a preview of The Sixth Extinction and a new milestone for
NCSE's Facebook page.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

NCSE had a lot to say about the educational uses of the third National
Climate Assessment. There's a new editor of Reports of the NCSE:
Stephanie Keep replaces Andrew J. Petto. And NCSE's Mark McCaffrey
discusses the Wyoming debacle in the pages of the Casper Star-Tribune.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

The proposal to include a reference to the sixth day of creation in a
bill designate a state fossil for South Carolina is still alive, while
the state's new science standards are again derailed by a state
senator's objections to evolution. NCSE's Friend of Darwin and Friend
of the Planet awards for 2014 are announced. And further comment on
the Wyoming legislature's decision not to fund adoption of the Next
Generation Science Standards because of their treatment of climate
change.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

The effort to repeal the so-called Louisiana Science Education Act
failed again. New, and disturbing, poll results about public
confidence in science. Editorialists in Wyoming are irate about the
state government's derailing the adoption of the Next Generation
Science Standards over climate. The New York Times surveys the state
of climate change education around the globe. And a Darwin Day bill
dies in the Hawaiian legislature.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

The Association for Science Teacher Education adds its voice for
evolution. Plus the situation with Wyoming's state science standards
is still in flux. And a reminder about NCSE's YouTube channel.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Harris issues a new poll including results on global climate change.
The South Carolina House of Representatives rejects a bill with a
reference to the Sixth Day of Creation. NCSE is pleased to offer a
preview of Michael L. Bender's Paleoclimate. The South Carolina Senate
votes to incorporate a reference to the Sixth Day of Creation in a
bill designating the official state fossil. And the second of
Oklahoma's two antiscience bills for 2014 dies in committee.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott receives NSTA's Distinguished Service to
Science Education Award. NCSE's Minda Berbeco, Mark McCaffrey, Eric
Meikle, and Glenn Branch address the issue of teaching controversies
in the science classroom in the pages of The Science Teacher. Brian
Alters, the president of NCSE's board of directors, is profiled in the
Orange County Register. And a new issue of Reports of the NCSE, a new
milestone for NCSE on Facebook, and a new honor for Kenneth R. Miller.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A new honor for the young activist Zack Kopplin, but a defeat for a
bill that would remove Louisiana's Balanced Treatment Act, ruled to be
unconstitutional in 1987, from the state's statute books.