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Texas Science Curriculum at Stake in Votes Today [UPDATED] |
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The Texas Education Board has its final say (hopefully) today in proposed alterations to the science curriculum that would reinstate discredited, religion-based objections to evolution. The Dallas Morning News, noting that textbook publishers often defer to the state's standards in its national curriculum, and believing that "doubting evolution shouldn't be Texas' legacy," urges a vote of "No."
The board votes today on several changes to the state's science standards, each of which is designed to get students to doubt evolution. . . .
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If there are ways to present alternative views in a religion class or, better yet, church fine. But science class in a public school isn't that place. As usual, the Texas Freedom Network's blog is the place to go for live coverage of the events.
[UPDATE: TFN reports that the amendment to add "strengths and weaknesses" to the evolution curriculum has failed on a 7-7 vote. There will still be amendments during the afternoon, leaving "room for mischief" by anti-evolution folks, and the final vote on the curriculum tomorrow will bear watching, but for now the effort to introduce creationist objections into the science textbook has been turned away.] |
