Teaching evolution in the South: an educator on the “war for science literacy"

Amanda Glaze is a professor of science education at Georgia Southern University. Before that she spent roughly a decade teaching K-12 in Georgia and Alabama. She has spent her entire teaching career in the South.

Earlier this year, she produced a video for sciencefriday.com about the challenges she’s encountered as a science educator. Teaching science, evolution in particular, can be a thankless job in this part of the country. In some communities, you’re colliding with a culture and a worldview that is both central to the identity of people and deeply threatened by scientific materialism....
http://www.vox.com/conversations/2016/10/25/13344516/education-evolution-science-south-religion-controversy-creationism-culture