FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
Kennedy argued that teaching creationism discourages students from applying the scientific method, which emphasizes conducting experiments with reproducible results and drawing logical conclusions from observable, measurable evidence.
Kennedy is currently serving as an expert witness for the University of California Regents, who are being sued by a group of Christian schools, students and parents for refusing to allow high school courses taught with creationist textbooks to fulfill the laboratory science requirement for UC admission.
Kennedy encouraged Stanford to take the lead in education reform by increasing dialogue and collaboration between the university faculty and researchers and primary and high school teachers.
DonaldKennedy is an American scientist, public administrator and academic.
DonaldKennedy was born in 1931 in New York and educated at Harvard University (A.B.; Ph.D., Biology, 1956).
Trained as a biologist, Kennedy has become an expert in environmental problems related to major land-use changes, economically driven alterations in agricultural practice, global climate change and the development of regulatory practices.
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