New US science education plan includes evolution and climate change
Public elementary and high school classes across the US should be teaching students about evolution, climate change, renewable energy and the Big Bang, subjects that some science classes don’t currently offer because some people find them controversial. But all of these and more are recommended in a new set of national standards published today by Achieve, an educational nonprofit that has been working for the past two years on a detailed plan to reform American science education.
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Already, though, earlier drafts of the plan were already rejected outright by the Texas State Board of Education, despite the fact that some teachers from that state were among the 41-member drafting committee for the new standards. Twenty six states helped design the new standards and most are expected to adopt them in some fashion, but it will be years before they make their way into classrooms. It’s unclear how many other states will get onboard, but with science education scores in the US falling behind those of other countries, it’s obvious that a new approach of some kind is needed.
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