ISTOCK, NKBIMAGESUpdate (October 19): Following protests against the proposed education standards for science, the New Mexico board of education has agreed to revise the curriculum. Namely, “final standards will restore references to the 4.6 billion-year age of the Earth, the rise in global temperatures over the past century and the process of evolution due to genetic variation,” according to the Associated Press.
The Santa Fe school board voted yesterday (October 3) to oppose the state’s new science education standards, which, the board says, water down or leave out key information about evolution and climate change, The Santa Fe New Mexican reports. The school board has written a letter in opposition to the state’s Public Education Department (PED), which it plans to send by week’s end. The board is also planning a “teach-in” at the PED building in Santa Fe for next Friday (October 13).
The letter, shared with the New Mexican, asks why the new standards omit the age of the Earth, the time when the first unicellular organism appeared, evolution, and global warming, while emphasizing the oil and gas industries. The letter also criticizes the state’s ...
