Treatment of Evolution Inconsistent

Autor/in	Cavanagh, Sean
Titel	Treatment of Evolution Inconsistent
Quelle	In: Education Week, 25 (2005) 11, S.1 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	State Standards; Evolution; Science Education; Public Schools + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule
Abstract	State standards for academic content vary enormously in how well they cover the topic of evolution, with many of those documents either ignoring or giving scant treatment to the core principles of that established scientific theory. This article presents the analysis of Education Week on state's standards treatment of evolution. Nearly all the science standards reviewed at least mention the theory advanced most famously by Charles Darwin, as well as the related concept of natural selection. Many of those standards, the basic documents describing what students are expected to know, fail to address the fundamental evidence supporting the theory, which explains how life on Earth developed. Many states' standards, for instance, make little or no connection between the theory of evolution and established scientific evidence about the age of the Earth, internal similarities between organisms, or the common ancestry of different species. The findings emerge as the theory of evolution faces attacks in states and school districts across the country. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10