16% of US science teachers are creationists

A recent survey of US science teachers conducted by Michael Berkman, professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University, found some are teaching creationism because they are personally less knowledgeable in science and evolutionary subjects.

When Berkman’s team asked about the teachers’ personal beliefs, about the same number, 16% of the total, said they believed human beings had been created by God within the last 10,000 years. Teachers who subscribed to these young-Earth creationist views, perhaps not surprisingly, spent 35% fewer hours teaching evolution than other teachers, the survey revealed. The survey also showed that teachers who had taken more science courses themselves - and especially those who had taken a course in evolutionary biology - devoted more class time to evolution than teachers with weaker science backgrounds.

What happened to curriculum based teaching then?