To Teach or Not To Teach

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More than a century before Ohio science teacher John Freshwater found himself at the center of a battle over academic freedom in the classroom, namely, whether he has a right to urge his students to think critically about topics such as evolution, John T. Scopes faced a similar firing squad. In Scopes’ case, however, he was prosecuted—or persecuted, as it were—for violating a Tennessee law, the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in state-funded schools.

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