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Of Columbia B A Treatment of evolution has improved; human evolution is explicit Florida F A Greatly improved Georgia F C Human evolution mentioned in the Anatomy and Physiology standards, but not in the life science standards Hawaii A C Wording in the Earth and Space Science standards includes creationist jargon Idaho B B Human evolution is not covered.
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No earth or space science at all at the high school level California A A Comprehensive treatment of evolution.
Historical connection is lacking Nebraska C C Weak on evolution; includes creationist jargon- the word "theory" is used only in relation to biological evolution Nevada C C No human evolution New Hampshire F A Improved treatment of evolution; human evolution included New Jersey A A Thorough and explicit treatment of evolution New Mexico C A Good across the board New York C C No revision since 1996.
Even if a good treatment of evolution in state science standards does not guarantee that evolution will be taught well, it provides a critical resource for teachers who want to teach evolution correctly.
A good treatment of evolution in state science standards can help to persuade administrators that the teaching of evolution is not a matter for political negotiations between parents and teachers with different interests but a clear educational necessity.
The clearest example is that a good treatment of evolution in the standards provides important support for biology teachers facing protests from creationist students, parents, and administrators who want creationism taught, or evolution not taught, in life science courses.
Yet, the following chapter launches the student into a traditional "organismic" treatment of evolution with no connections made to either the prior chapter on genome evolution or the entire set of previous chapters on genetics.
The calculations closely parallel our earlier work [ 22], which is in turn based on a general theoretical treatment of evolution on neutral networks by van Nimwegen and coworkers [ 11].
The good news is that, in our re-evaluation, nine states and the District of Columbia receive a grade of A, indicating that the treatment of evolution is excellent or very good.
Lerner (2000) also provided a comprehensive evaluation of the treatment of evolution in state science standards, as did Swanson (2005), following a different methodology.
And be sure to consider their final recommendations about how you can make a difference in improving the treatment of evolution in state science standards.
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