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12:00 AM - Kansan Disinformation According to an AP article supposedly detailing the results of a study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, "Kansas has the nation’s worst science standards for public schools." Actually, that dubious distinction went to Alaska with a mere 19% on their report card. Kansas, by contrast, received 65% on their 2005 standards draft, roundly trouncing my home state of Oklahoma. Once again (and even more vigorously than usual) the mainstream media raises the question of whether they are incorporating personal biases into their work or else merely incompetent. Could it be that journalism is skewed by laughing stock? Why are we focusing on Kansas, anyway? It is of note that Kansas was reevaluated and given an "F" only after a final redaction of both the state science standards and the Institute's rating thereof: Similarly, the AP article claims that Kansas "new definition" of science "avoids limiting explanations to natural ones." If this were true, it would be a scathing indictment, indeed. Here is how the standards actually characterize the practice of science: As to whether supernatural explanations of the natural world (e.g. ID) may be tested against the natural world, I'll leave that as an excercise to the reader. (
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