When a science center isnt. Bob Dyer, writing for the Akron Beacon Journal: On one of the last days of the school year, a big yellow Cuyahoga Falls school bus was parked in front of the Akron Fossils & Science Center in Copley, just south of Copley Circle. Giving your students a science lesson at the Copley Fossils & Science Center is the equivalent of hiring Alice Cooper to be your principal. This science center is nothing of the sort. It is a paean to creationism. Among other things, the center is teaching young people that the Earth is 6,000 years old and that humans and dinosaurs walked around at the same time. (The correct answers, for those of you prepping for standardized tests: the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and the only dinosaur that has interacted with humans is Barney.) And this: As I noted five years ago, the name fooled the Akron Zoo, the Cleveland Orchestra and even COSI, the renowned science center in Columbus. All three groups contributed to a fundraiser for the center without understanding what they were contributing to.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 20:59:57 +0000
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