At this time of the summer, when members of Congress return to their districts for town hall meetings often dominated by very vocal and very belligerent “Tea Party” activists, it is refreshing to see education officials in a conservative state resist pressures to make scientific standards conform to fundamentalist religious beliefs.
Last week, the Kentucky Board of Education did just that, approving the Next Generation Science Standards being considered by the Boards of Education of 26 states in an effort to create more uniform standards from state to state.
These standards carry over the previously approved parameters for teaching evolution and introduce some new standards for the teaching of climate science.
Declaring that the argument over evolution is scientifically moot, the Board described it as a “fundamental, unifying theory that underlies all the life sciences” and emphasized that there is no “significant ongoing debate within the scientific community” about its…
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