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Standards Index: Topic 5.6: Groups Influencing Policy Making

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Skill 1.E: Explain how various political processes apply to different scenarios in context.

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Influencing Policy: Evolution and the First Amendment

Students will learn how some students, scientists and advocacy organizations have sought to influence the way evolution is taught in public schools, and how this debate relates to court rulings involving the First Amendment’s establishment clause.