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The Fordham analysis concludes standards nationwide have not improved_______________________________________________
since
the institute's last review in 2000. The same number of states earned A or
B
grades, while slightly more failed.
Among the shortcomings: Trying to teach too much; taking a hands-on
approach
to "absurd" levels; and watering down evolution "in response to religious
and
political pressures."
"A number of states have resisted this madness in their science standards
but
too many are fudging or obfuscating the entire basis on which biology
rests," says the report, which was chiefly authored by biologist Paul
Gross, former
head of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., and a
former
provost at the University of Virginia.