Re: Kansas: Controlling Curriculum

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:17:45 -0400, Jason Spaceman
<notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From the article:
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Amid questions about the role and effectiveness of the Kansas State
Board of Education, Miami County schools will maintain their teaching
methods despite the state?s recent change to science standards

By: Erin Wisdom

Kansas is known for its wheat. It?s known for the yellow brick road
and the ruby slippers, for the cast of characters that sought out Oz.
And, in recent years, it has drawn the national spotlight for its
stance on how its schools handle the instruction of evolution.

A new development in this controversy arose last month, when the
Kansas State Board of Education voted that schools not be allowed to
teach intelligent design alongside evolution in science classrooms.

The United States Of America's Constitution does that, under the
First Amendment.

This reversed its November 2005 ruling that schools could include
intelligent design in their science curriculums and even required the
board to reword its definition of science, which it previously had
described as ?no longer limited to the search for natural explanations
of phenomena.? As part of last month?s ruling, it limited the
definition to ?the search for natural explanations for what is
observed in the universe.?

Despite this reversal in state science standards, many Miami County
schools will continue to use the curriculum they have for years -- in
large part because the State Board of Education has been so
inconsistent in its evolution rulings as to make them difficult to
follow. And because of these inconsistencies, some Miami County
educators question whether the board should continue to be the entity
in charge of approving Kansas? curriculum standards.

?It?s shown itself to be ineffectual,? Paola USD 368 Superintendent
Rod Allen said of the board, specifically in regard to its evolution
rulings. ?(Board members) can?t make a decision, and it?s been
frustrating in the field because of the vacillating.?
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