Arizona Science Standards Revisions Raise Concerns

Arizona Science Standards Revisions Raises Concerns

FLAGSTAFF (May 25, 2018)

In September 2016 the Arizona Department of Education began a review of the Arizona Science Standards for K-12 education.  The education standards along with proposed revisions were made public in late March 2018 and have generated a strong reaction by many educational subject-matter experts.

Three changes in particular are primary sources of the greatest concern:

• The “scientific method” is replaced with “science and engineering practices”
• The theory of evolution gets a new definition and is framed in a context of “belief”
• “The Big Bang” is removed entirely from the Earth and Space Sciences section

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