Topeka? Kansas has the nation’s worst science standards for public schools, a national education group says, condemning the state for rewriting its definition of science and treating evolution as a ...
Kansas is set to adopt science standards that encourage the exploration of alternatives to the theory of evolution. Science groups are mobilizing to oppose the changes. The groups have said they will ...
(TNS) — Two years ago, Nick Poels decided he wanted K-12 students in his rural Kansas community of 2,500 to learn to code. Kids in Phillipsburg soon had a brand-new computer lab, and Poels hoped 20 or ...
We often associate April with the showers that bring May flowers, and of course, April Fool’s Day. But there’s more to April than that. April is Citizen Science Month. For many people “science” is the ...
TOPEKA, Kan. – An anti-evolution group filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to block Kansas from using new, multistate science standards in its public schools, arguing the guidelines promote atheism and ...
The Kansas Board of Education is thinking about reviewing science standards, but with a twist.Kansas and Missouri may join other states in a national review of how science is taught in the ...
A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss a case brought in Kansas by a religiously-minded group of parents and students. The plaintiffs were concerned about their home ...
The battle over the adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) has flared up in a new state—Kansas. The NGSS standards are a nationwide attempt to improve science education in the US, ...
It took less than two minutes for Journee Freeman and Stevie Stinebaugh to prove they had lost little, if any, of the great reading strides they had made in kindergarten last year. The two Berryton ...