Thursday 24 May 2018

Arizona state education standards see evolution deleted

Arizona state education standards see evolution deleted

In Arizona, the state's superintendent of public instruction has led a campaign to remove evolution from the state's science education standards. Diane Douglas has taken the standards, written by educators, and selectively replaced instances of the word "evolution" with euphemisms like "change over time." The alterations come less than a year after Douglas publicly advocated for introducing religious ideas into biology classrooms. Arizona residents still have roughly a week to submit comments on the changes.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/arizona-official-waters-down-states-science-education-standards/?source=Snapzu

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