Barbara Cargill is amending 3rd grad standards to alter the list of objects students must use to understand how pushing and pulling changes an object's position. Much discussion between Cargill, Chairman Don McLeroy, and reputed Sarah Palin lookalike Terri Leo about how and when children are to play with balls.
Folks are feeling punchy, so juvenile jokes abound.
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I'm here in Austin, watching people speak out about the science Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). Board questions are in red. Bored comments will be interspersed. As always, as a blogger I don't speak for NCSE, and have been known to work blue.
8:33: First up, Sharon Sparlin, a…
An amendment by Cargill is being passed around. It changes ESS standards.
Will it change the age of the earth? Oh, I'm so anxious I could plotz.
Amendment is on the page listing "(4) Earth in space and time."
She says it adds qualifiers. Seeks "humility and tentativeness."
She wants to insert "…
You can listen along with me at: http://at1.tea.state.tx.us/sboeaudio
As before, board comments are in blue.
Rose Banzhas, speaking for herself but also an environmental educator: Environmental education matters. As an outdoor educator, I know this matters.
McLeroy keeps asking people if they're…
Terri Leo just offered an amendment to add a standard to Biology 9:
D) analyze and evaluate the evidence regarding formation of simple organic molecules and their organization into long complex molecules having information such as the DNA molecule for self-replicating life.
It passed, with…
I just heard the creationists lost. Great job - and thanks!
No, the creationists are winning. Yes, "strengths and weaknesses" was struck out, but it's been replaced by worse language, and it appears that more is still being added today.
After seeing Agosto's voting strategy today, I'm inclined to think we'll lose tomorrow. I see them rubber-stamping today with no discussion.
NCSE and TFN, I fear that you may have made it hard to fix the problem by equating removal of "weaknesses" with winning in so many people's minds.