Kansas State Board of Education

Kansas State Board of Education

Kansas State Board of Education is Kansas' Board of Education. The board is a constitutional body established in Article 6 of the Kansas Constitution. The ten members of the Board of Education are each elected to four-year terms. The Board helps determine educational policy for the state's primary and secondary schools.

The Kansas State Board of Education was created to replace the position of Kansas State Superintendent of Public Instruction effective January 14, 1969, pursuant to an amendment to the Kansas Constitution adopted November 8, 1966.

Intelligent design controversy

There has been a controversy regarding the status of creationism and evolution in the Kansas public education system, which is also the subject of a great deal of debate in the legal, political, and religious arenas.

In 1999, the Board ruled that instruction about evolution, the age of the earth, and the origin of the universe was permitted, but not mandatory, and that those topics would not appear on state standardized tests. However, the Board reversed this decision February 14, 2001, ruling that instruction of all those topics was mandatory and that they would appear on standardized tests.

Then on August 9, 2005, the Board approved a draft of science curriculum standards that mandated equal time for the theories of "evolution" and "intelligent design". But February 13, 2007, the Board voted 6 to 4 to reject the amended science standards enacted in 2005. The definition of science was once again limited to "the search for natural explanations for what is observed in the universe", [ [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/13/america/NA-GEN-US-Kansas-Evolution-History.php Evolution of Kansas science standards continues as Darwin's theories regain prominence] ] or what is known as "methodological naturalism".

ee also

* Creation and evolution in public education
* Kansas evolution hearings

External articles

;Citations

;Geberal information
* [http://www.ksde.org/pre/historyofeducationfinal.PDF History of Education in Kansas] . ksde.org.

;Further reading
* Kester, D., & Kester, J. (1985). "History of the Kansas State Department of Education". Topeka, KS: Kansas Department of Education.
* Throckmorton, A.F. (1967). "Kansas Educational Progress: 1858-1967". Topeka, KS: Kansas State Department of Public Instruction.
* Throckmorton, Adel F. (1960). "Our Kansas System of Education". Topeka, KS: Kansas State Department of Public Instruction.
* Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, "Strategies Evolve as Candidates Prepare for Kansas Board Races". Science 3 February 2006 311: 588-589 DOI 10.1126/science.311.5761.588
* Yudhijit Bhattarcharjee, "Evolution Trumps Intelligent Design in Kansas Vote". Science 11 August 2006 313: 743 DOI 10.1126/science.313.5788.743
* AAAS Board of Directors, "On the Kansas State Board of Education Decision on the Education of Students in the Science of Evolution and Cosmology". Science 12 November 1999 286: 1297 DOI 10.1126/science.286.5443.1297b

;Websites
* [http://www.ksde.org Welcome to KSDE] : Kansas State Department of Education homepage. The Department promotes the mission of the "Kansas State Board of Education".
** [http://www.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=111 Licensure Information]
** [http://www.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1648 Licensure]
** [http://www.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=83 Data]
* [http://www.daplus.us/ShowPhoto.aspx?abi=49EF2211DDFC25236D153B6DC47DA72AF460FB31AB8EC256609006DFC3A01074&Partner=400240 Kansas State Board of Education 120 SE 10th Ave, Topeka, KS] 66612 (785) 296-3201
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9967813/ Kansas education board downplays evolution] State school board OKs standards casting doubt on Darwin.
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6415040,00.html Kansas Rewrites Science Standards Again]
* [http://www.christian-oneness.org/authors/standards.html Letters to the Kansas State Board of Education regarding evolution and science curriculum standards] , June 7, 2005
* [http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=24965 Kansas board of education scraps standards questioning evolution ] ----


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