This week at progressive state blogs: Evolution takes a hit in AZ K-12 textbooks; lousy messaging
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This week at progressive state blogs is designed specifically to focus attention on the writing and analysis of people focused on their home turf. Here is the May 19 edition. Inclusion of a blog post does not necessarily indicate my agreement with—or endThis week at progressive state blogs: Evolution takes a hit in AZ K-12 textbooks; lousy messaging
This week at progressive state blogs is designed specifically to focus attention on the writing and analysis of people focused on their home turf. Here is the May 19 edition. Inclusion of a blog post does not necessarily indicate my agreement with—or endorsement of—its contents. David Gordo at Blog for Arizona writes—Evolution, Climate Change, and The Big Bang Theory to be Eliminated From Arizona K-12: Later this year, the Arizona State Board of Education will consider adopting new K-12 standards in both Science and History/Social Studies. The consideration of standards for these core subjects has nearly always met increased scrutiny and controversial consideration from segments of the population with different perspectives because these disciplines touch on topics that can potentially challenge a person’s or group’s belief system. This year is no exception as the new proposed Arizona K-12 Science Standards have invited negative reactions from members of the mainstream education and science community because of the terms and concepts it has attempted to strike away and the closed-door process Superintendent Diane Douglas’s unknown internal reviewers adopted after being presented with the original draft version of the standards. Forbidden terms, reworded behind closed doors. Evolution is the most prominent term altered in the proposed new Arizona K-12 Science Standards. Stricken mostly wherever it is mentioned and redefined as the Theory of Evolution, the word is not even included among the many key terms the reviewers added. Read more