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Research Article| October 01 2013 The 1990s: The 20th Century Ends (1991–2000) Betty Carvellas, Betty Carvellas 1BETTY CARVELLAS (bcarvellas@yahoo.com) and ANN S. LUMSDEN (lumsden@bio.fsu.edu) are retired biology educators. Betty, a high school biology teacher, received NABT’s Outstanding Biology Teacher Award for Vermont in 1986 and was NABT President in 1996. Ann recently retired from the faculty of the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida State University. In 1992, she received the NABT’s first Four-Year College Teaching Award and was NABT President in 2001. Both serve on the NABT History Committee. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Ann S. Lumsden Ann S. Lumsden 1BETTY CARVELLAS (bcarvellas@yahoo.com) and ANN S. LUMSDEN (lumsden@bio.fsu.edu) are retired biology educators. Betty, a high school biology teacher, received NABT’s Outstanding Biology Teacher Award for Vermont in 1986 and was NABT President in 1996. Ann recently retired from the faculty of the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida State University. In 1992, she received the NABT’s first Four-Year College Teaching Award and was NABT President in 2001. Both serve on the NABT History Committee. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The American Biology Teacher (2013) 75 (8): 519–521. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2013.75.8.3 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Betty Carvellas, Ann S. Lumsden; The 1990s: The 20th Century Ends (1991–2000). The American Biology Teacher 1 October 2013; 75 (8): 519–521. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2013.75.8.3 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe American Biology Teacher Search As the 20th century closed, the nation’s biology teachers were able to stay on top of three of the biggest issues of the 1990s through membership in NABT and by reading The American Biology Teacher. These major issues were Members were informed about progress on the new National Science Education Standards well before their 1996 release. Not only did NABT (the executive director and the board) establish a task force to review materials and identify how and where they would meet the standards, they prepared educational materials that met the expectations of the NSES and had an “instrument” on the Web for evaluating alignment of curricula, programs, and materials. The second major issue of the decade continues today – the evolution/creationism debate. Throughout the nineties, numerous ABT editorials addressed the issue, and NABT released a position statement, “The Teaching of Evolution.” In addition to numerous programs at the national... You do not currently have access to this content.
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