controversy

teach/learn the controversy? It's come up a lot in the last few weeks in the whole Intelligent Design kerfuffle. teachthecontroversy.com is one take... Talk.Origns another.

Gerald Graff checks in with

...I felt as if my pocket had been picked when the Intelligent Design crowd appropriated my slogan, and even moreso when President Bush endorsed its proposal, saying that “both sides ought to be properly taught” so “people can understand what the debate is about.” As a secular left-liberal, I felt that my ideas were being hijacked by the Christian Right as a thinly-veiled pretext for imposing their religious dogma on the schools...

(in 1993, Graff wrote Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education)