Topeka? Kansas has the nation’s worst science standards for public schools, a national education group says, condemning the state for rewriting its definition of science and treating evolution as a ...
(TNS) — Two years ago, Nick Poels decided he wanted K-12 students in his rural Kansas community of 2,500 to learn to code. Kids in Phillipsburg soon had a brand-new computer lab, and Poels hoped 20 or ...
TOPEKA, Kan. – Revisiting a topic that exposed Kansas to nationwide ridicule six years ago, the state Board of Education approved science standards for public schools Tuesday that cast doubt on the ...
TOPEKA, Kan. – An anti-evolution group filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to block Kansas from using new, multistate science standards in its public schools, arguing the guidelines promote atheism and ...
The Kansas Board of Education is thinking about reviewing science standards, but with a twist.Kansas and Missouri may join other states in a national review of how science is taught in the ...
Sharon Billings, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Senior Scientist at the Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research, discusses ...
Taylor Howell works on a Java coding assignment in Lisa Whallon's class at Olathe Northwest High School. A teenager wakes up, gets ready for school. Slips a smartphone into her pocket on the way out ...
Students in Phillipsburg, Kansas use a new computer lab that opened before the pandemic. This photo was taken in 2019. It has 25 workstations with self-guided curriculum for computer science and ...
Etienne Borrego practices with his wood glider Saturday during the Kansas Science Olympiad at Wichita State University. Travis Heying The Wichita Eagle While many young Wichitans were in search of ...