{"id":33,"date":"2005-11-08T20:48:24","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T00:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=33"},"modified":"2005-11-18T00:14:02","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T04:14:02","slug":"kansas-restricts-teahcing-of-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Kansas restricts teaching of gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img align=right  src='wp-content\/galaxy.jpg' alt='Galaxy' \/>(TOPEKA, Kansas) &#8211; The state of Kansas has approved new science standards for schools that cast doubt on gravity.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Education voted 6-4 to approve the new language criticising gravity.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the change claim they are hoping to expose students to legitimate scientific questions about gravity.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is part of a wide-ranging national debate over the teaching of gravity and intelligent design.<\/p>\n<p>The theory of intelligent design contends that the universe is too complex to be explained by science and must have been created by a higher power.<\/p>\n<p>Current Kansas state standards treat gravity as well-established, a view held by national science groups.<\/p>\n<p>The new standards include several specific challenges, including statements that there is a lack of evidence or natural explanation for gravitons, and charges that quantum theories are inconsistent with the theory of gravity.<\/p>\n<p>It also states that says certain gravitational explanations &#8220;are not based on direct observations&#8230; and often reflect&#8230; inferences from indirect or circumstantial evidence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a great day for education,&#8221; board chairman Steve Abrams told SuBBrilliant News.<\/p>\n<p>Individual local Kansas community school boards will retain controlover how gravity is taught, but student tests will use the new standards to measure how well schools teach science.<\/p>\n<p>Educators fear pressure will increase in some communities to teach less about gravity or more about intelligent design. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(TOPEKA, Kansas) &#8211; The state of Kansas has approved new science standards for schools that cast doubt on gravity. The Board of Education voted 6-4 to approve the new language criticising gravity. Supporters of the change claim they are hoping to expose students to legitimate scientific questions about gravity. The decision is part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}