Kansas Denied Use of National Science Education Standards

"The National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Teachers Association have refused to grant copyright permission to the Kansas State Board of Education to make use of publications by the two organizations in the state's science education standards. According to a statement from the two groups, the new Kansas standards are improved, but as currently written, they overemphasize controversy in the theory of evolution and distort the definition of science. NAS and NSTA offered to work with the board to resolve these issues so the state standards could use text from the National Research Council's "National Science Education Standards" and NSTA's "Pathways to Science Standards." Source : The National Academies


* Joint Statement (PDF)
* Letter from President Cicerone (PDF)
* Review of the Kansas Science Education Standards (PDF)
* "National Science Education Standards "
* Letter from the National Science Teachers Association
* "Pathways to the Science Standards"
* Statement from the American Association for the Advancement of Science