Attention lolleeroberts (and other Texans)

[kengr]

You thought the incoming classes were hard to teach before?

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is considering certifying the Institute for Creation Research to offer Master's degrees in science education. If approved, some Texas schools will have science teachers whose qualifications are in Biblical creationism.

Source: Inside Higher Ed

(swiped from dark_christian)

Comments

[aliceslalaland.livejournal.com]

OMG Don't even get me started because I don't have the time to rant about this stupidity of the conservative right to have so much power over the education of our future generations.... I so need to leave this country.... When's my Italian citizenship coming thru...... ARGH!

[kengr]

Well, if you read the comments over in dark_christian you'll find that if they do this, in a few years, there'll be a *huge* uproar when the students they "graduate" discover that their diplomas will *not* be recognized by the University of California schools.

And given that a bunch of other universities are looking at instituting similar restrictions on what they'll accept as valid science courses in high school, the backlash should be *really* interesting.

[lolleeroberts.livejournal.com]

Your icon says it all. Heck, one of my former coworker was incredibly proud of his doctorate - from a theological school. His dissertation (as near as I could tell) was about biological differences in man (Adam) before and after the fall.

No, not in an allegorical sense. Yes, he was serious.

Head-desk, head-desk, head-desk.

[kengr]

Well, as I noted in a reply above, the U C system won't take Texas students if this goes thru, and apparently a lot of other universities are planning on adopting similar policies regarding "science" education of this sort.

The fact that the UC refusal has survived several court challenges is likely why the others are going along.

Should be interesting to see what happens when the school boards and voters get their faces rubbed in the fact that good schools won't accept students who've been fed this crap instead of science.

ps, I assume you've heard that the Texas board of education fired the person in charge of science textbooks for daring to imply that evidence based science should be considered instead of ID?

[acelightning.livejournal.com]