Kansas Evolution Hearings - New Science Standards

New Science Standards

On November 8, 2005 the Kansas Board of Education approved the following changes to its science standards:

  1. Add to the mission statement a goal that science education should seek to help students make "informed" decisions.
  2. Provide a definition of science that is not strictly limited to natural explanations.
  3. Allow intelligent design to be presented as an alternative explanation to evolution as presented in mainstream biology textbooks, without endorsing it.
  4. State that evolution is a theory and not a fact.
  5. Require informing students of purported scientific controversies regarding evolution.

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