Teaching Evolution has a bright future in the US

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/teaching-evolution-has-a-bright-future-in-the-u-s/
This is a January opinion piece that was free to read for me. Scientific American is offering 90 days for $1.
Science standards have improved in most states since the ID scam took over from the scientific creationists.  This has mainly been due the utter failure of scientific creationism and ID, but is also due to the fact that the creationist rubes do not want to teach the obfuscation and denial switch scam junk if they cannot tell the students why they are lying to them.  They do not want to teach the students enough science for them to understand what they have to deny, if they can't tell them why they need to deny the science.  Nearly all the creationist rubes that have had the bait and switch run on them by the ID perps have refused to implement the obfuscation and denial switch scam, and have either failed to pass the switch scam stupidity, or they dropped the issue without even trying.
Instead, the creationists have tried to dumb down the science standards.   Kansas succeeded in dropping biological evolution, the Big Bang, and things like understanding radio isotopes in chemistry class from the state science standards, and this was not rectified until enough of the creationists were voted out and standards were reestablished that would ensure a decent science education.  Even though this tactic is just stupid and sad when the goal is to improve public education, other states like Texas and Oklahoma have also tried to do similar things with their science standards, but the creationists haven't had enough votes to censor the valid science.
It should also be noted that creationists are starting to try to reform and are trying to end the science denial stupidity.  Several YEC denominations are trying to convert to OEC since the failure of ID in the Federal courts.  They seem to understand that ID was just warmed over scientific creationism that didn't make the grade in the 20th century.
Ron Okimoto