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Examines the decision by the State School Board for Kansas to delete the topic of Darwinian evolution from the required curriculum for high school biology, and the topic of big-bang cosmology from the required curriculum for high school physics.

HERODOTUS WAS GREEK HISTORIAN WHOSE SUBJECT WAS THE RECENT PAST. PRIMARILY, HIS ACCOUNTS DEALT WITH THE REPULSION OF THE PERSIAN EMPEROR BY HIS INTENDED VICTIMS. THUCYDIDES SOUGHT TO PRESENT MORE THAN AN ACCOUNT OF THE WAR AND SAW THE EVENTS AND SPEECHES IN TERMS OF WAR IN GENERAL AND OF RECURRING HUMAN BEHAVIOR.

There are various approaches to science teaching at the primary school level. Common to these approaches is assessment of pupils only in the theoretical aspect of science. This study determined the effect of an approach that inculcates the assessment of the practical aspect of science into the teaching and learning process on pupils' achievement in basic science and technology. In this approach, pupils in primary schools were engaged in science activities which were in line with the content of science as reflected in the basic science, basic technology and information and communication technology themes of the basic science and technology curriculum. This study adopted a pretest-posttest control group quasi experimental research design. The population of the study was all the basic four pupils (primary 4) in Odeda local government area of Ogun state. Three hundred and three (303) basic four pupils selected from four public primary schools formed the sample of the study; the instruments for data collection were: basic science and technology interest questionnaire. Participants' practical activities were assessed. The data collected were analysed using the analysis of covariance and estimated marginal means. The result of the study indicates that the pupils who were taught science with the approach which makes the assessment of practical an integral aspect of teaching and learning process had an insignificant posttest interest mean gain in two themes of basic science and technology. Since the education enterprise focuses on learners' progress no matter how insignificant; it was recommended that pupils should not only be engaged in hands on activities but their performance in hands on activities must be assessed. Article visualizations:

Politics is about conflict, struggle, decision-making, power and influence. But not every conflict and not every situation in which power is exercised is widely regarded as politics. A football coach who decides to leave a player on the bench because he has given him a bit of lip, is exerting power, and there is conflict here, too. However, few people would consider this a political issue. The same applies to a mother who quarrels with her adolescent daughter about going to a house party, a schoolteacher who gives a student detention, and so on. But if we were to limit our understanding of politics to official decisions that are taken by governments, in parliaments or on municipal councils, we would fail to recognise the political meaning of trade unions, lobbyists, protest groups, corporations and other more-or-less organised groups that influence collective decision-making.

The intellectual interconnection between professional scientists and the National Movement offers a most interesting field of study. The assumption that is tested in this article is that the ideological horizons of Indian scientists changed over the period as much as the aims and objects of the National Movement; and both the changes reacted on each other, ending with M.N. Saha's anxiety to reshape the whole world.

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When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze the role of measurement infrastructures such as national statistical institutes, the extent to which intellectual competition between different schools of thought may lead to polarization of views over some parameters and at the same time to consensus over other parameters, and finally how the attempt to preserve influence can lead to degenerative research programs.

Introduction1 Science, Rationality, and Scientific Temper in Postcolonial India 2 Beyond Disenchantment: Scientists, Laboratories, and Religion 3 The Making of Scientist-Believers 4 Being Atheistic, Being Scientific: Scientists as Atheists 5 Caste, Religion, and the Laboratory LifeConclusionBibliography

The Presbyterian and Reformed Review, volume 5, issue 18, pages 254-260