Re: Art Burke & Creationism in Minnesota

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/25/2004 6:31:57 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
shays@telis.org writes:
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Of course, a frightenly large percentage of elementary teachers don't teach 
science at all (and many many more than the one you cited do things like refer 
to the
National Enquirer -- or worse -- as a part of their "science" program).
This is a rather daunting number to address, in and of itself.  This new
strategy of ID will make it even harder for elementary teachers to lay the
necessary conceptual foundation that is required for more advanced studies
in middle and high school.

Certainly you recognize this 
difficulty?____________________________________________
If elementary teachers are not teaching science, or not teaching it very 
well, then ID poking its nose into a few phrases in the science standards is the 
least of our worries.  

To go on a somewhat different tack, one that I hope takes us away from ID, 
NCLB requires testing of science in elementary, middle, and high school in 2007. 
 What effect do you see this having on science teaching? 

Art