The Ft. Worth Star Telegram reported on Thursday that the proposed final draft (full text) of science curriculum standards for Texas high schools pleases scientists who feared that the standards would undercut the teaching of evolution. The draft defines science using the National Academy of Science language. The draft also says that that students should be able "to evaluate models according to their limitations in representing biological objects or events." This replaces more problematic language in the current science guidelines (full text) that refer to students analyzing the "strength and weaknesses" of scientific theories. The new draft resulted even though the review panel included three anti-evolutionists. (See prior posting.) A public hearing on the new draft will be held Jan. 21, and a final board vote on them will take place in March. [Thanks to Scott Mange for the lead.]
Saturday, January 03, 2009
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Which means jack, since it wouldn't be the first time Texas, or some other schools boards, have voted in, at the last minute, some idiot alternative, which someone wrote up over night, or had sitting in the wings, instead of the one people a) liked and b) had spent months trying to agree on.
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