The National Association of Scholars (nas.org) has published a new set of “K-12 State Science Standards” dedicated to “the spirit of Benjamin Franklin.” NAS is a conservative organization of scholars that promotes “academic freedom, disinterested scholarship, and excellence in American higher education.”
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Robert Lattimer, our Eagle Forum Science Chairman reports, that Ohio requests feedback on updated academic standards.
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K-12 science standards in all states contain performance expectations on biological evolution (macroevolution, or descent from a common ancestry). All state standards (including the Next Generation Science Standards) present unguided evolution as the only explanation for the development of life starting from single-cell ancestors.
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Robert Lattimer Eagle Forum Science Issues Chairman reported the Texas Board of Education retained language in the state’s science standards for the critical analysis of life’s development on April 21. In particular, the “streamlined” standards call for analysis of cellular complexity, the origin of DNA, and abrupt appearance and stasis in the fossil record.
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Bob Lattimer, Eagle Forum’s Science Issues Chairman, submitted an excellent article he wrote titled, “Streamlining” the Texas science standards.
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Ben Stein is known to many as an actor on Comedy Central. But the funniest part about his latest movie called “Expelled” is not any clever lines spoken by Stein but the hysterical way the liberals are trying to discourage people from seeing it.
Continue reading →The liberal press is gloating that the seesaw battle for control of the Kansas Board of Education just teetered back to pro-evolutionists for the second time in five years.
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Parents who wonder why the public schools teach so many things parents don’t approve of need look no further than the official policies of the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA).
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Judge John E. Jones III could still be Chairman of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board if millions of evangelical Christians had not pulled the lever for George W. Bush in 2000. Yet this federal judge, who owes his position entirely to those voters and the Bush who appointed him, stuck the knife in the backs of those who brought him to the dance in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
Continue reading →The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press. The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
Continue reading →The 2004 national convention of the National Education Association adopted its usual leftwing legislative goals, giving the green light to the NEA’s highly paid staff to lobby the Congress that will convene in January 2005.
Continue reading →“Why is it important for scientists to critically analyze evolution?”
Continue reading →Many parents assume that the tests given to their children in public school are only for educational purposes. To the contrary, for many years schools have been demanding that students answer nosy questions about their personal behavior and attitudes, about what goes on inside the family, and even about the behavior of relatives.
Continue reading →How the subject of evolution is treated in the classroom has emerged again as a source of controversy, this time in the Ohio State Board of Education. Until now, Ohio public schools have not mandated any direct teaching about the subject.
Continue reading →Tests, standards and accountability are the watchwords for public school education reform. Such good words! Can they do the job?
Continue reading →Liberals have long realized that, if they can win the battle over what is taught in schools, they will win elections. While they claim to believe in free speech, they often have little tolerance for alternate points of view in the schools.
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