Comments on: Kansas science - evolution standards months away http://curricublog.org/2006/11/22/ks-science-months/ Tony Whitson's blog on curriculum-related matters Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:44:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Kansas science standards update « Tony’s curricublog http://curricublog.org/2006/11/22/ks-science-months/#comment-909 Kansas science standards update « Tony’s curricublog Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:12:21 +0000 http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2006/11/22/ks-science-months/#comment-909 [...] After the elections last November, there were reports that Kansas might be “months away” from adopting revised science standards that would restore the definition of “science” as a quest for explanations of natural phenomena based on principles of nature (so that science classes would not include consideration of non-natural or supernatural explanations, and evolutionary biology would not be supplemented in science classes with creationary or “ID” speculation). It seemed that there might be an extensive process before the issue would be brought to a vote by the newly-elected state board of education (see here). [...] [...] After the elections last November, there were reports that Kansas might be “months away” from adopting revised science standards that would restore the definition of “science” as a quest for explanations of natural phenomena based on principles of nature (so that science classes would not include consideration of non-natural or supernatural explanations, and evolutionary biology would not be supplemented in science classes with creationary or “ID” speculation). It seemed that there might be an extensive process before the issue would be brought to a vote by the newly-elected state board of education (see here). [...]

]]> By: Jack Krebs http://curricublog.org/2006/11/22/ks-science-months/#comment-149 Jack Krebs Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:21:04 +0000 http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2006/11/22/ks-science-months/#comment-149 Hi. I'm president of KCFS and a member of the science standards writing committee. Thanks for your comments. The writing committee finished the Recommended standards after we were disbanded by commission Corkins (who reigned today, by the way.) My guess is that the Board would like to reconvene the committee in order to put us in a position to follow the established process that was derailed by the outgoing creationist majority. I too am interested to see what happens next. Hi. I’m president of KCFS and a member of the science standards writing committee. Thanks for your comments.

The writing committee finished the Recommended standards after we were disbanded by commission Corkins (who reigned today, by the way.) My guess is that the Board would like to reconvene the committee in order to put us in a position to follow the established process that was derailed by the outgoing creationist majority. I too am interested to see what happens next.

]]> By: time for curriculum input on evolution controversy « AAACS Matters! http://curricublog.org/2006/11/22/ks-science-months/#comment-148 time for curriculum input on evolution controversy « AAACS Matters! Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:34:22 +0000 http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2006/11/22/ks-science-months/#comment-148 [...] http://curricublog.org/2006/11/22/ks-science-months/ This entry was written by Tony Whitson and posted on November 22, 2006 at 4:34 pm and filed under science, blog, Evolution, AAACS activisim. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. « incorporation, creationsim, & NCLB [...] [...] http://curricublog.org/2006/11/22/ks-science-months/ This entry was written by Tony Whitson and posted on November 22, 2006 at 4:34 pm and filed under science, blog, Evolution, AAACS activisim. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. « incorporation, creationsim, & NCLB [...]

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