New Science Standards
On November 8, 2005 the Kansas Board of Education approved the following changes to its science standards:
- Add to the mission statement a goal that science education should seek to help students make "informed" decisions.
- Provide a definition of science that is not strictly limited to natural explanations.
- Allow intelligent design to be presented as an alternative explanation to evolution as presented in mainstream biology textbooks, without endorsing it.
- State that evolution is a theory and not a fact.
- Require informing students of purported scientific controversies regarding evolution.
Read more about this topic: Kansas Evolution Hearings
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