rssWhy the Texas Board of Education Results Were Good — but Not Great — News for Science
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 at 1:53 pm
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Good: Because Don McLeroy — the guy who, according to The New York Times, “identifies himself as a young-earth creationist who believes that the earth was created in six days, as the book of Genesis has it, less than 10,000 years ago” — will no longer have voting power to dictate the content of the state’s public school textbooks.
Not Great: Because McLeroy’s challenger, Republican Thomas Ratcliff, won with just 50.5 percent of the vote — a razor-thin margin indicating that roughly half of the district wanted McLeroy to remain.
Is there any wonder that American kids are so far behind the rest of the developed world in science?
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Comment posted March 3, 2010 @ 3:22 pm
It doesn't matter because the world is going to end in two years time.
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Comment posted March 3, 2010 @ 6:02 pm
It's not like you can get a job with a science degree, or engineering, in the United States. Might it not be better to simply be trained into a life of serfdom and avoid the effort and expense of teaching future peasants about math, science, logic and reason? It seems this conclusion has already been reached by default in this country. Tom Friedman's atrocious NYT piece talking with Intel schmuck Otellini gives us Industry's self-licking ice cream cone death spiral of America genius-Intel doesn't want to pay taxes to support public schools that don't teach the engineering skills they need so they can go to China where slaves and peasants will do the work for peanuts so they can sell computers to the diminishing number of people who can afford them because they are underemployed and poorly educated back in the United States.
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Comment posted March 12, 2010 @ 7:12 am
The US students are behind in science . . . That is one of the few subjects for which you can get an objective measure. Is the rest of the argument that the US students are OK in music, art, history, etc. After twelve years in school very few students can tell if someone is singing in tune or not.
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