Comments | ontd_political: Alabama Students Will Finally Be Required To Learn About Climate Change And Evolution

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Alabama Students Will Finally Be Required To Learn About Climate Change And Evolution

Sep 16, 2015 13:52

"We still have to teach what the science is."

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ohmiya_sg September 20 2015, 19:50:00 UTC

"Locally controversial" is a great way of putting it.

moonshaz September 20 2015, 21:55:16 UTC

The new curriculum will help improve scientific literacy in the state, where only 21 percent of 10th-graders meet or exceed national science testing standards.

Under the circumstances, I'm surprised that even 21 percent of the kids meet those standards!

Sounds like AL is finally taking some steps in the right direction. I'm happy for the students there.