On Wednesday, a Kentucky review committee voted down the state’s plan to incorporate new federal science education guidelines into its curriculum. But Kentucky’s governor is making sure the committee doesn’t get the last word on science education in his state.
Gov. Steve Beshear (D) said Wednesday that he plans to implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) “under his own authority,” despite the Kentucky legislature’s Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee’s 5-1 decision that the standards are deficient. The governor’s announcement will ensure the standards will move forward for the time being — they could still be killed by Kentucky’s general assembly when it returns in January, but the governor would then have the option to veto that decision.
Kentucky’s path to implement the NGSS — which are voluntary guidelines that, if adopted by states, provide standards for science education that include the teaching of climate science and evolution — has been a rocky one. The state Board of Education approved the standards this June, but since then, the state’s Tea Party along with religious and family-based groups have lobbied hard against the adoption of the rules — lobbying that Robert Bevins, president of Kentuckians for Science Education, a group that supports the NGSS, said resulted in the subcommittee’s vote against the standards.
You know it is things like this that give me hope, and make me wish that EVERY state had themselves a Democrat in the Governor's mansion. It would be a much better country in my opinion.
Kids deserve to be taught real science, NOT superstitious claptrap, or oil company propaganda.
Like I always say, schools can teach creationism as soon as churches are forced to give equal time to science.
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ReplyDeleteIf that ever happened, the Democrats would become as corrupt and stupid as the current Republicans. It's not like Democrats have a squeaky clean history. Why do you think people are so easily pigeon-holed. I would prefer politicians of honor in BOTH parties to allow for honest discussion and debate instead of group-think.
Oh please. The current GOP is anti-science, anti-logic, anti-female, anti-public schools, anti-unions, anti-climate change, anti-contraception, anti-healthcare, anti-living wage, anti-seniors, anti-immigrants, anti-anything promoted by Obama. Tell us, please, one thing the GOP is for except lining their already bulging pockets? Yes, there are some corrupt Dems, but as a party, the Dems are for the people. The GOP? For power and money at the expense of the people.
DeleteI couldn't have said it better myself Sally. Great response.... and so true.
DeleteWhat in Dog's name are you talking about, 6:20?
DeleteWhat is it that you want to debate and discuss? I think your problem might be that nobody much believes that the Bible's version of creation is an accurate depiction of how this planet, and everything on it, came to exist. Attempts to force others to accept your version of creation will not make your version more accurate. In fact, attempting to force others to adhere to your version of creation may only make them more skeptical about Biblical creation, and any other similar beliefs that you espouse.
Yikes. part of my initial post didn't make it into print. I was repsonding to:
Deleteand make me wish that EVERY state had themselves a Democrat in the Governor's mansion. It would be a much better country in my opinion.
Democracts can and have been, and some are, every bit as corrupt as some Republicans. I agree right now more Republicans are more corrupt, and as my P.S. suggests, I think science is for science class, and religion for religion or philosophy class etc. I jsut think it's naive, and dangerous, to think that Democrats will be beyond the temptations of politics. history suggestions otherwise.
P.S. I totally agree about kids being taught science in science class, and myths in literature, and religion in philosophy class.
ReplyDeleteIf science threatens the foundation of a religion, the foundation must be pretty shaky already. It's not science that's causing the problem. It's science that's *exposing* the problem.
ReplyDeleteWay way to stand your ground, Governor Brashear.
As I posted last week, Beshear has been a good governor for this state, but it is tainted with McConnell and Paul. This state voted for Bill Clinton. I've only lived here five years and it is my understanding that Beshear is a very religious man and a very nice man. It helps that he has a Democratic legislature too. But it also proves that Democrats can be religious too (if that's important to someone) and not wear it on their sleeves like the far religious right crackpots who are nothing but hypocrits anyway. The sad thing is that he is term limited and can't run again.
ReplyDeleteGreat post, Gryphen! I love my governor, Jeremiah Nixon! He may be the only thing stopping Missouri from turning into the next Texas (apologies to my friends from Texas).
ReplyDeleteI remember a few years ago, telling my neighbors from Kansas how very much I envied them their Governor Kathleen Sebelius. At the time, our governor was the oh-so-forgettable Matt Blunt (wth happened to that guy?).
I think the governors races in 2014 should be a special focus for Democrats. The current crop of GOP governors have proven very dangerous to voting rights, as well as educational standards, and many other issues. This. Is. Important.
Here's a real winner for you ladies! A real boon to women's rights...NOT. Let's keep 'em barefoot and pregnant! I feel sorry for any 'daughter' that has parents that take this guy as serious. He is disgusting.
ReplyDeleteA Catholic website this week encouraged its readers not to allow their daughters to go to college because any young woman would be near sin and would “not learn to be a wife and mother.”
In a Sunday article on the Fix the Family website, Raylan Alleman offers “6 Reasons (+2) to NOT Send Your Daughter to College.”
Alleman expains that young women “will attract the wrong types of men” at college: “those lazy men who are looking for a mother-figure in a wife are very attracted to this responsible, organized, smart woman who has it all together.”
“The bottom line, HE is only supplementing HER income, but he’s supposed to be the provider,” he writes. “What she did that was looked upon to be the ‘responsible thing “just in case”‘ ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy because of the type of man she married.”
But being “near occasion of sin” can cause the daughter, who Alleman just described as a “responsible, organized, smart woman,” to be hypnotized by their own hormones.
“Is a degree worth the loss of your daughter’s purity, dignity, and soul?” he asks. “[A] woman is naturally very observant of a man’s faults as long as she is in a platonic relationship with him. Once she becomes sexually active with him, she releases hormones that mask his faults, and she remains in a dreamy state about him. We can see why God would arrange things in such a way so that when in a proper state of holy matrimony, she would be less sensitive to his faults and thereby less tempted to be critical of him.”
Alleman adds that daughters should “learn to be a wife and mother” instead of pursuing higher education.
“Nothing that is taught in a college curriculum is geared toward domestic homemaking,” he opines. “Stay-at-home mothers are actually very busy industrious women and do absolutely beautiful marvelous things… These abilities cannot be learned in any college.”
Alleman goes on to say that saving for college is also “a near occasion of sin for the parents” because they may be tempted to “avoid having more children with contraception, sterilization, or illicit use of NFP to bear this cost.”
“To assume that all of our children will need a college degree is quite a stretch, particularly for girls who will likely be mothers.”
Watch the following video that Alleman recorded in 2012 to advise parents on protecting their daughters.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/13/catholic-website-says-colleges-arent-for-women-learn-to-be-a-wife-and-mother/
I hope he and his followers walk the walk and "Fix the Family". Voluntary Sterilization is the best way to stop this verbal incontinence from spreading.
DeleteI would LOVE to see the little missus that snagged this turd.
O/T Gryphen, if you missed Colbert on Putin, it's a really good one!
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F*ck you, we’ll bomb Syria with lesbian pilots flying the ‘Enola Gay’
Thursday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert addressed the op-ed piece by Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin that appeared in the New York Times Tuesday evening and suggested that the U.S. take some very specific action by way of response.
“Now, let’s talk about that Putin guy,” Colbert said. “He’s got a fascinating op-ed in today’s New York Times. Hold on a second, I forgot my rage.”
The host retrieved a blue plastic cooler from under the desk that, when opened, bathed his face in glowing green light. Colbert dipped his face into the ice chest and bellowed incoherently for a moment, then emerged, eyes bulging and mouth contorted with fury.
“How dare! How dare!” he shouted. “How dare the New York Times print the propaganda of a homicidal KGB kleptocrat? I assume he’s filling in for Maureen Dowd this week while she’s on vacation with polonium poisoning.”
“Because news flash, New York Times, he murders journalists!” continued Colbert. “We don’t do that in America. We just let them starve to death in their dying industry.”
“No surprise, folks, that the Grey Lady’s got her legs spread for Vlad the Impaler, here,” he quipped. “They’ve got a long history of legitimizing iron-fisted tyrants. In the 80s, who could forget Qaddafi’s front page spread in the Style section, ‘Hot for Spring: Muumuu Mania?’”
Or, he said, that time Pol Pot left an add in the “Missed Connections” section of the classifieds, “Cambodian paranoid genocidal Rousseau-lover seeks educated city dweller for long walks, beautiful sunsets, mass graves. NO FATTIES.”
He went on to criticize Putin’s admonishment that Americans should not think of themselves as “exceptional.” “It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional,” wrote the Russian president.
“F*ck you,” Colbert said. “Vlad, thinking you’re exceptional is not ‘extremely dangerous,’ it’s exceptionally dangerous.”
“Folks, I was on the fence before this, but we’ve got to bomb Syria,” he concluded. “I mean massive airstrikes, and just to stick it to Putin, I say we use lesbian pilots flying the Enola Gay,” the plane used in the atomic bombing raid on Hiroshima, Japan.
Watch the video, embedded below via Comedy Central:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/13/colbert-to-putin-fck-you-well-bomb-syria-with-lesbian-pilots-flying-the-enola-gay/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/13/colbert-to-putin-fck-you-well-bomb-syria-with-lesbian-pilots-flying-the-enola-gay/
You're so right, we need to get more democrats in office. I live in Pennsylvania, the only Republican I would ever have considered voting for was Arlen Specter. The man listened to everyone and busted his ass to solve problems, regardless of party.
ReplyDeleteEd Rendell was our mayor in Philadelphia and did a superb job, went on to become Governor and didn't let me down. Now we're stuck with Tom Corbett, but hopefully he'll get booted out.
Teaching fables as fact does no one any good.