Some subscribers to TIPS may be interested in a recent post "Science
Education in Texas #2" [Hake (2009)].
The abstract reads:
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ABSTRACT: In response to my post "Science Education in Texas," John
(Texas) Clement stated that the resignation of Chris Comer, Texas
Education Agency's director of science curriculum, was old news and
cited a 2007 report by Steven Schafersman, President of the Texas
Citizens for Science. I quote an even more complete and up-to-date
report by Sandhya Bathija (2009), which indicates that (a) Chris
Comer's lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency was dismissed on
31 March 2009 by a George-W-Bush-appointed U.S. District Judge; and
(b) Texas school board activists may well prevail in infusing
creationism and intelligent design into Texas schools, as well as
schools throughout the U.S. The latter because many publishers tend
to cater to the curriculum mandates of Texas, evidently the
second-largest state purchaser of textbooks in the U.S.
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To access the complete 14 kB post please click on <http://tinyurl.com/nb3bem>.
To what extent is psychology considered to be part of science
education in K-12?
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands.
<[email protected]>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi/>
<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com/>
REFERENCES
Hake, R.R. 2009. "Science Education in Texas #2," online on the OPEN!
AERA-L archives at <http://tinyurl.com/nb3bem>. Post of 28 May 2009
21:01:29 -0700 to AERA-L, Net-Gold, & PhysLrnR. The abstract is also
online at
<http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2009/05/science-education-in-texas-2.html>
with a provision for comments.
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