Ethics

Texas Science Standards Looking Good

By Ed Brayton

The Ft. Worth Star Telegram reports that the proposed final draft of the new Texas science standards are much better than expected and that scientists and groups like the Texas Freedom Network are pleased with them.

The final proposal for the state's science curriculum pleases scientists and watch groups, who say it will help protect Texas public school classrooms over the next decade from what they call "watered-down science" -- specifically during the instruction of evolution.

Believe it or not, the "strengths and weaknesses" language has been removed:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 08, 2009 (boomark / email).