Kansas Can't use Evolution Papers
The New York Times reported today that The National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Teachers Association have notified the state of Kansas that they cannot use the copyrighted materials of the two agencies in their new "science" standards.
In a joint statement the two groups soundly criticized the new standards. "Kansas students will not be well-prepared for the rigors of higher education or the demands of an increasingly complex and technologically-driven world if their science education is based on these standards."
The American Association for the Advancement of Science supported the copyright denial, saying: "Students are ill-served by any effort in science classrooms to blur the distinction between science and other ways of knowing, including those concerned with the supernatural."
Of course none of this phased the six conservative members of the state school board who indicated it would simply require some minor modifications. Others weren't so sure. The chairman of the standards-writing committee, an assistant research professor at the University of Kansas who opposes the criticism of evolution that conservatives inserted into the standards, is reported to have said that copyrighted material appears on almost all of the document's 100 pages, and to have predicted it could take two to three months to revise them.
Earth to Kansas, earth to Kansas, here's hoping you people have the brains to vote these yahoos out next year. Concept, they are focusing on their own agenda and not focusing on what is best for the students of Kansas.
In a joint statement the two groups soundly criticized the new standards. "Kansas students will not be well-prepared for the rigors of higher education or the demands of an increasingly complex and technologically-driven world if their science education is based on these standards."
The American Association for the Advancement of Science supported the copyright denial, saying: "Students are ill-served by any effort in science classrooms to blur the distinction between science and other ways of knowing, including those concerned with the supernatural."
Of course none of this phased the six conservative members of the state school board who indicated it would simply require some minor modifications. Others weren't so sure. The chairman of the standards-writing committee, an assistant research professor at the University of Kansas who opposes the criticism of evolution that conservatives inserted into the standards, is reported to have said that copyrighted material appears on almost all of the document's 100 pages, and to have predicted it could take two to three months to revise them.
Earth to Kansas, earth to Kansas, here's hoping you people have the brains to vote these yahoos out next year. Concept, they are focusing on their own agenda and not focusing on what is best for the students of Kansas.
posted by Alencon at 9:22 AM
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