Jonny Scaramanga of the leavingfundamentalism blog has been investigating Christian Accelerated Education, a for profit organisation which teaches anti-science in schools around the UK.
Jim invited Jonny in for a chat about his attempts to ask Ofsted, the UK’s Office for Standards in Education, why CAE schools have been approved, despite that the Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove has made clear his objection to the teaching of creationism in UK schools.
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http://www.naric.org.uk/article.asp?article=106
http://leavingfundamentalism.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/5-even-worse-lies-from-accelerated-christian-education/
http://leavingfundamentalism.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/top-5-lies-told-by-accelerated-christian-education/
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6019822
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6019140
http://christian-education.org/directory.html
http://bcseweb.org.uk/
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Mat. I’ve contacted you via Facebook. Could you add ‘thatjim’ to Skype and let me know when you’re free to chat. Maybe we could get you and Jonny on at the same time?
Oops! That’ll teach me for posting at 1 in the morning. Corrected. Changed Learning to Education.
This is very disturbing, is there anything I can do to help? I am a scientist and this I think is very dangerous thing. I went to one of these schools, it wasn’t a creationism school per se but there was no evolution on the science syllabus (it was GCSE double science) and they invited creationist speakers to talk to us. I left school knowing relatively little science and if it wasn’t for the local tech college I would still know little science. I managed to get to university and become a scientist, I have been working in that profession and I am currently just finishing a PhD in theoretical physics.
Thanks a million for helping to get the word out Jim. Just a note, they’re called “Accelerated Christian Education.” They also sometimes go under the name “School of Tomorrow”, although not as much these days.
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