Science education has caused circumstances where items of basic facts such as climate change / evolution / age of the earth are excluded

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The most important thing in science education that requires a logical way of thinking is the data of all the underlying scientific facts, but there is no doubt that these items can be excluded from textbooks used in schools in the United States It is happening in New Mexico.

New Mexico Does not Want Your Kids to Know How How Old the Earth Is - Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/09/new-mexico-remove-climate-change-evolution-public-education/

Proposed New Mexico science standards edit out basic facts | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/proposed-new-mexico-science-standards-edit-out-basic-facts/

In the American education system, each state is allowed to independently decide what to teach at school. There are institutions that determine the content of education in each province and decide what should be taught in that state, but what has been included therein and what will not be incorporated has been discussed so often I have done it. Especially, as to how to teach about historical facts, the color of ideological confrontation of each camp is strong, and it is said that it has become the subject of controversy many times so far.

However, one incident occurring in New Mexico this time seems to be going on with conventional discussions. The proposed change in educational content announced by the state in September 2017 includes major content changes such as climate change, age of the earth, content of evolution of life are cut, and the state parliament There is a voice of criticism from "political deletion" is raised.

The content deleted this time was included in the revision plan announced by the Education Department of New Mexico State. For example, the title "Earth's 4.6-billion-year-old geologic history" (earth's 4.6 billion years geological history) written about the geological history of the earth is called "Earth's history" It is said that concrete figures were cut with a shelter and parts about the evolution of life were completely deleted. Also, the fact that global warming exists as scientific data also seems to be replaced by the nuance "temperature variation". Regarding the history of the earth and the evolutionary theory, there is a part of baptism with the Christian religious view, which is a more sensitive part than Japanese imagines, but on the content that it excludes scientific data as facts It seems that many voices of criticism are being given. Moreover, it seems that criticism is accelerating also that there is no explanation for the reason.

ByAllie Osmar Siarto

One of the criminal contenders is Susana Martinez Governor in New Mexico. To Dr. Martinez, a conservative Republican governor, Democratic lawmakers Bill McCamly and G. Andres Romero have raised voices of criticism. Both Mr. McCamly and Romero,Next Generation Science StandardI have been advancing to incorporate the policy of science education called the educational curriculum of the state into the educational curriculum of the state, but in the final phase Mr. Martinez took over the veto and it was a circumstance that it included it in the objection. The conservative Martinez and the ideology of a liberal Democratic lawmaker are confronted.

Mr. McCamly and Mr. Romero said, "When my term at the Public Education Bureau was about to end, I changed the content of the educational standards and changed the contents, political removal I was assigned criticism by taking the testimony that I was assigned a task to do. "

In the future, it is possible that residents of New Mexico state are able to give their opinions on the amendment until October 16. Things that differ from person to person is to respect each other, but losing the opportunity to teach the data that becomes the cornerstone of judgment, without making the facts that should be known essentially by principle assertion, Criticism that at least it is negative to the idea of ​​science seems inevitable.

ByGioia De Antoniis