Kansas State Board of Education
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Kansas State Board of Education is the Kansas' Board of Education. The board of education is the title of the board of directors for Kansas schools. The elected council helps determine educational policy in the state. Education in Kansas is governed primarily by the Kansas State Board of Education.
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[edit] Civil rights
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court overturning its earlier ruling, declaring the establishment of separate public schools for black and white students inherently unequal. This victory paved the way for integration and the Civil Rights Movement.
[edit] Intelligent design controversy
The has been a controversy reguardnig the status of creation and evolution in the Kansas public education system, which is also the subject of a great deal of debate in the legal, political, and religious arenas. On August 9, 2005, the Board approved a draft of science curriculum standards that mandated equal time for the theories of "evolution" and "intelligent design". This echoes a previous decision in Kansas. In 1999, the Board ruled that instruction about evolution, the age of the earth, and the origin of the universe was permitted, but not mandatory, and that those topics would not appear on state standardized tests. However, the Board reversed this decision February 14, 2001, ruling that instruction of all those topics was mandatory and that they would appear on standardized tests. On February 13, 2007, the Board voted 6 to 4 to reject the amended science standards enacted in 2005. The definition of science was once again limited to "the search for natural explanations for what is observed in the universe", [1] or what is known as "Methodological naturalism"
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[edit] External articles
- Citations
- Geberal information
- History of Education in Kansas. ksde.org.
- Further reading
- Kester, D., & Kester, J. (1985). History of the Kansas State Department of Education. Topeka, KS: Kansas Department of Education.
- Throckmorton, A.F. (1967). Kansas Educational Progress: 1858-1967. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Department of Public Instruction.
- Throckmorton, Adel F. (1960). Our Kansas System of Education. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Department of Public Instruction.
- Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Strategies Evolve as Candidates Prepare for Kansas Board Races. Science 3 February 2006 311: 588-589 DOI 10.1126/science.311.5761.588
- Yudhijit Bhattarcharjee, Evolution Trumps Intelligent Design in Kansas Vote. Science 11 August 2006 313: 743 DOI 10.1126/science.313.5788.743
- AAAS Board of Directors, On the Kansas State Board of Education Decision on the Education of Students in the Science of Evolution and Cosmology. Science 12 November 1999 286: 1297 DOI 10.1126/science.286.5443.1297b
- Websites
- Welcome to KSDE : Kansas State Department of Education homepage. The Department promotes the mission of the Kansas State Board of Education.
- Kansas State Board of Education 120 SE 10th Ave, Topeka, KS 66612 (785) 296-3201
- Kansas education board downplays evolution State school board OKs standards casting doubt on Darwin.
- Kansas Rewrites Science Standards Again
- Letters to the Kansas State Board of Education regarding evolution and science curriculum standards, June 7, 2005
- Kansas board of education scraps standards questioning evolution
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