One has to read the whole article to see it. It's cited at the end. Here it is: http://www.ksde.org/outcomes/sciencestd.html.
It's a monster, as are all education standards documents. Typically, the problematic phrases are buried in several places. I haven't read it yet, so I can't point them out, but I suggest to you that mere argument about whether Someone directed the Big Bang or not is not the problem here. I have lived through the attempted cooption of science by religion in school. We are talking about an attempt to declare scientific method and theory to be open to popular vote rather than rigorous standards.
Incidentally, the 17-year-old says we should have academic courses on religion in school, as electives, so that this stuff has somewhere else to go. She's right. The "intelligent design" people wouldn't like that, though: they want "equal time" in the science classroom, whether their philosophy is science or not.
Incidentally, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study initial results for 2003 are available. American children score slightly above average, but below Asian nations who are not engaged in making science ideologically acceptable. If we are not interested in improving actual education, our kids and grandkids will be doing the kind of factory work that "Made in Japan" signified to me when I was a kindergartener. Welcome to the Third World.
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A link to the first draft of the KS standards document was provided.
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- The struggle continues
- Maybe they'll have a "science" fair
- "struggle?"
- Pumping "sh*t" down childrens'throats?
- Don't these folks worry about their kids becoming Applewhiteians or Raelians or whatever?
- Speaking of education
- and to the point
- re: "struggle?"
- Jeez that felt good! (n/t)
- ROTFLMAO
- Oh, and PS (and help me out, Fox, Tony, Alcary, Mary Anne- I only have a limited memory)
- Add everything that appeared below since I was last here, and I'd say it was well covered. (n/t)
- re: That countries with borders are sovereign, is a meaningless notion
- Only line I'm waiting for now is "Laugh it up hairballs" ;-) (n/t)
- That slippery slopes only exist for gun control and creeping socialism
- that Republicans are desperate for careers in teaching the humanities, but the liberals won't let them. (n/t)
- LOL!!!! (n/t)
- re: Oh, and PS
- You have to expand the scope to the entire "left" over an entire century to match
- You think this is just about Bush?
- I remember talking to someone who asserted that FDR was going to be the end of the world.
- Whatever. To argue against fantasy counterfactuals requires I rejoin with other fantasies. Then we get into an argument about imagined events. Its like a sandbox argument about 'Spiderman could kick…
- I think Davis post was about very recent history. And that you are going insanely far afield to match it. (n/t)
- HZone in general: ulktimately the litany of error speaks for itself. You can argue these individually until you are blue in the face, but at some point you have to see that its a hionking huge FORRES… (n/t)
- You think this is just about Bush?
- You have to expand the scope to the entire "left" over an entire century to match
- You want to take me on on missile defense, you'd better pack a lunch. (n/t)
- LOL! Your memory appears fine to me!
- Bravo, sir! (n/t)
- That Fox News is fair and balanced! (n/t)
- Just one thing you missed
- re: "the spectre of superstition"