Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio

frdmfghtr (603968) writes Over at Ars Technica, there's a story about a bill in the Ohio legislature that wants to downplay the teaching of the scientific process. From the article: "Specifically prohibiting a discussion of the scientific process is a recipe for educational chaos. To begin with, it leaves the knowledge the kids will still receive—the things we have learned through science—completely unmoored from any indication of how that knowledge was generated or whether it's likely to be reliable. The scientific process is also useful in that it can help people understand the world around them and the information they're bombarded with; it can also help people assess the reliability of various sources of information." The science standards would have "...focus on academic and scientific knowledge rather than scientific processes; and prohibit political or religious interpretation of scientific facts in favor of another." Political interpretation of scientific facts include humans contributing to climate change according to the bill's sponsor, who also thinks intelligent design would be OK under the law.

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Re:This is good!

[maliqua]

without the how, facts mean nothing

5 * 5 =25

don't ask why it just is memorize it and every other result of a process!

Now ICP can finally achieve their teaching dreams

[timrod]

If they're going to be teaching creationism in schools, they can hire ICP to teach. I can see the classes now, where they teach the children that everything from quantum mechanics to tectonic plate shifts are caused by miracles, regardless of what anyone else says. Magnets? They're like, double miracles man. Miracles on top of miracles.

Re:The US slides back to the caves

[oodaloop]

Still using Imperial measurements?

Do you find your 10-day workweeks more convenient, now that you've completely gone over to the metric system?

Re: The US slides back to the caves

[plover]

Keep in mind how big the us is and deverse. Head to the coasts and you will find that its like compairing night and day. Still it makes the us the butt of other peoples jokes.

I know you're only trying to help defend the image of the American education system, but please, stop. I'm not sure you could have packed more condemnation of your school's English curriculum into a three sentence reply.

You did remind me of a joke, though. "The bigger America is, diverse it gets."

Re:The US slides back to the caves

[jxander]

So ... do you find your 100 kilosecond work days more convenient?

Re:The US slides back to the caves

[RabidReindeer]

Of course the continent of Europe includes Russia, which most people don't include.

I think you'll find that most people include Russia as part of Europe.

Or maybe it's Russia the considers Europe as part of them.