Author: Danny Passovoy

Recent high-profile cases of ideological fights concerning the material contained in textbooks at public schools highlight the role political preferences play in selecting texts, members of the education community say. In Gilbert, the local school board voted late last month to edit material in a biology textbook after conservative members of the board determined it…

Dr. Zain Khalpey stands next to a ghostly white lung pumping rhythmically on the table next to him. “That’s pretty damn good, actually,” Khalpey says as he gazes at the data recorded by the lung’s ventilator. The ventilator indicates that the pig lung is inflating and deflating like a normal lung. Experiments such as this…