RE: Kansas Closing arguments

There are two useful websites that spell all this out in detail, the
Kansas State Dept. of Education site:

http://www.ksde.org/outcomes/sciencestdreview.html

and the Kansas Coalition for Science site:

http://coalitionforscience.org/

Jim Hofmann

-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of kbmill@ksu.edu
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:03 AM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: Kansas Closing arguments

Wayne:

> In a previous post, I had commented rather harshly
> about the decision of AAAS not to participate in the
> kangaroo court. Keith had pointed out that the reason
> was because the bill being debated was a minority bill
> and not the original bill that was originally discussed.

This is not about legislation. The issue is the content of the Kansas
science standards that determine the questions to be asked on
state-wide standardized tests. There are two documents. There is the
science standards document developed and revised by an appointed
committee over a nearly year long process that has been presented to
the State Board of Education for approval. Then there is the "Minority
Report" that was written outside of the committee process by dissenting
members of the committee with the imput of the IDNet.

Keith
Received on Tue May 17 12:11:05 2005