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The Kansas Board of Education is set to vote this week on science standards that would encourage teachers and students to question evolution and to explore other ideas about how life developed on Earth.
NPR: Groups Fight New Science Standards in Kansas
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The state board there adopted new science standards that encourage teachers and students to question evolution.
NPR: Intelligent Design in American Classrooms
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Kansas is one step closer to adopting guidelines that encourage students and teachers to question evolution.
NPR: Kansas Moves Closer to Intelligent Design Curriculum
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Also on May 5, WHIAAPI will convene an AAPI Student Success Program at South Seattle Community College, followed by a TEACH Campaign Student Roundtable at the University of Washington Ethnic Cultural Center, a collaborative event between WHIAAPI, the Associated Students of Washington Pacific Islander Student Commission, and the U.S. Department of Education TEACH Campaign to encourage AAPI students to become teachers.
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"For China to produce its own Steve Jobs, our education system needs to reform to encourage creativity, to encourage students to challenge the authority, their teachers, and their books, " she explained.
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They also encourage teachers to discuss with their students such things as gaps in the fossil record, molecular evidence, that they say raises questions about the theory of evolution.
NPR: Intelligent Design in American Classrooms