It’s time to update science education standards, and that means another burst of hysteria. We were here just a couple of years ago with middle schools, and now we’re back again for elementary and high school standards.
While most of the effort is spent on non-controversial advances in learning, there are a few hot buttons like evolution and climate change that inevitably slow things down. It looks like this round will be no different. With no Utah standards to discuss yet, some Utah Board of Education members are already launching pre-emptive attacks on national science education standards.