Religions > Atheism > Kansas: Plans take shape State board's conservatives create new ways to decide science standards
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10 Feb 2005 04:49:56 AM |
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Kansas: Plans take shape State board's conservatives create new ways to decide science standards |
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BY JOSH FUNK
The Wichita Eagle
Conservatives on the State Board of Education moved ahead Wednesday
with their own plan to change the way evolution is taught in Kansas
schools. They took several steps one day after Attorney General Phill
Kline offered to defend them if they wanted to place stickers on
textbooks stating that evolution is a theory, not fact.
Conservative board member Kathy Martin said board members want to go
beyond stickers.
"We just want to address it by putting something in our standards to
allow critical analysis of the theory of evolution," Martin said by
phone.
The board's four moderate members said the six conservatives were
subverting the process for reviewing curriculum standards.
"It's a radical departure from our normal procedure," moderate board
member Bill Wagnon said.
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Read it at http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/10861873.htm
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Joe Knapka" |
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| Title: Re: Kansas: Plans take shape State board's conservatives create new ways to decide science standards |
11 Feb 2005 11:53:52 AM |
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Jason Spaceman <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> writes:
From the article:
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BY JOSH FUNK
The Wichita Eagle
Conservatives on the State Board of Education moved ahead Wednesday
with their own plan to change the way evolution is taught in Kansas
schools. They took several steps one day after Attorney General Phill
Kline offered to defend them if they wanted to place stickers on
textbooks stating that evolution is a theory, not fact.
Conservative board member Kathy Martin said board members want to go
beyond stickers.
"We just want to address it by putting something in our standards to
allow critical analysis of the theory of evolution," Martin said by
phone.
This is especially ironic because public schools in the U.S. are
typically NOT places where "critical analysis" of anything whatsoever
occurs. Rather, they're places where teachers are obliged to cram
young brains full (very temporarily) of whatever assorted facts
they'll require in order to pass the "achievement tests" mandated by
"No Child Left Behind" so that the school can demonstrate its
commitment to "tougher standards". And if any of the mandatory
standardized tests include substantive questions related to evolution,
I'll eat my shoes. In this respect, the creationists have already
won, without even trying.
-- Joe
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