(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Sad news of the death of Walter Gehring. And movement in South
Carolina's impasse over evolution in its new state science standards.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

NCSE's next webinar for activists, and survey results on public
opinion about climate change from twenty countries.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott is astronomically honored. And Wyoming,
unsurprisingly, takes notice of the Climate Science Students Bill of
Rights.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

The launch of the Climate Science Students Bill of Rights!

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

The creationism/evolution controversy comes to the county fair.
Wyoming's science standards are back on hold. A new issue of Reports
of the NCSE is available. And NCSE is pleased to offer a preview of
Brandon Haught's history of the creationism/evolution controversy in
Florida.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

NCSE's next webinar for activists is coming up. National Journal
examines the state of climate change education while US News and World
Report describes the controversies over the Next Generation Science
Standards. And there's good news from the Sooner State.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Welcome news on evolution education in academies in the United
Kingdom. Plus a group of Wyoming churches have endorsed the NGSS,
NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott has received a Presidential Citation for
Science and Society from the American Geophysical Union, and Bloomberg
has conducted a new survey on public opinions about climate change.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A proposal to undermine the treatment of evolution in South Carolina's
state science standards was rejected. The American Humanist
Association honors NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott. There's a new contribution
from NCSE in Evolution: Education and Outreach. And NCSE is offering a
glimpse of The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A nice honor for NCSE's website. Wyoming scientists and educators
defend the place of climate science in the state science standards.
Plus a new poll on evolution from Gallup, a new milestone for NCSE's
Facebook page, and the introduction of evolution in middle school
classrooms in Israel.

(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.