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Gus Likes the Massachusetts Standards
In an email sent today by to all his House colleagues, Representative Gus Blackwell, Chair of the House Rules Committee condemned the use of the Next Generation Science Standards as a pattern for the proposed Oklahoma Academic Skills for Science and … Continue reading
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A Letter to the Editor
(The letter below is by Professor Richard Broughton, an OESE Board member. It was recently published in the Norman Transcript) On May 12 the Oklahoma House Administrative Rules and Government Oversight Committee voted 10-1 to reject the proposed Oklahoma Academic Standards for … Continue reading
Another Action Alert
House Joint Resolution 1099 is on the House agenda to be heard tomorrow, Tuesday, May 20. The Oklahoma House Administrative Rules and Government Oversight Committee voted to reject the rules as they pertain to the proposed Oklahoma Academic Skills for Science (OASS) on … Continue reading
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ALERT from OESE
ACTION ALERT: PLEASE HELP STOP PROVISIONS OF HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 1099 THAT PREVENTS OKLAHOMA FROM ADOPTING THE NEW SCIENCE STANDARDS . Oklahoma Science Teachers Association and Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education (OSTA) endorses OASS. The OSTA report on HJR 1099 is HERE. The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted unanimously to approve … Continue reading
Trouble over Oklahoma science standards
from The National Center for Science Education blog A committee in the Oklahoma House of Representatives voted to reject a new set of science standards, primarily over concerns about its treatment of climate change. The state board of education unanimously … Continue reading
Oklahoma House Committee Rejects New Science Standards
Monday afternoon the Oklahoma House Administrative Rules and Government Oversight Committee voted 10-1 to reject the proposed Oklahoma Academic Skills for Science that have been in development for the past year and a half. A rejection of proposed education standards … Continue reading
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U.S. and U.K. Scientists Present Joint Report on Climate Change
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the U.K.’s Royal Society released a publication in late February that makes clear that humans are causing climate change. The report attempts to dispel myths about climate science while setting the record straight … Continue reading
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OESE Action Alert
Last year’s HB1674, the Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act by Blackwell and Kern, passed the Common Education Committee by a vote of 9-8 and placed on the House floor. As expected the bill passed on the House floor today (March … Continue reading
One Down in Oklahoma
Oklahoma’s Senate Bill 1765 (PDF), which would, if enacted, have deprived administrators of the ability to prevent teachers from miseducating students about “scientific controversies,” died in the Senate Education Committee on February 24, 2014, when a deadline for senate bills to pass … Continue reading
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Recent Research Study Pinpoints Source of Evolution Misconceptions in Oklahoma Biology Students
A recent study by two Oklahoma researchers is causing a stir on the Internet and is setting records for the number of hits on the website for the journal Evolution Education Outreach. Dr. Ed Marek, Presidential Professor and Director of the John … Continue reading →