September 10, 1999

Kansas Colleges Troubled as State's Schools Are Allowed to Stop Teaching Evolution

By JEFFREY SELINGO

With Kansas public schools now permitted to wipe the theory of evolution out of science curricula, higher-education leaders in the state said they planned to educate the public about what they see as the dangers of the policy, rather than change training programs for prospective science teachers.

Even so, some college science professors report that the state Board of Education's decision -- although limited to public elementary and secondary schools -- has

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