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Versions of the Kansas Science
Standards
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1)
2001 Standards (Draft 6.1)
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The current standards, adopted
February 14, 2001.
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2) 1999
Standards
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The creationist-influenced
"sub-standards." This is the December 1999 version,
based on the August 11, 1999 standards, but
slightly revised to avoid the fact that the
national science organizations refused to give
copyright permission to use their
language.
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3) Draft
5, July 1999
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This is the draft, originally
submitted by the 27-member science writing
committee, that was changed by the Board writing
team to create the 1999 "sub-standards."
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4) Abrams
/ Willis
CDC Draft 8A, June
1999
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This is the "citizens drafting
committee's (CDC)" version written by Tom Willis,
president of the Creation Science Association of
Mid-America CSAMA), and others; and secretly used
by Board subcommittee of Steve Abrams, Scott Hill,
and Harold Voth when they "revised" Draft
5.
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5) Comparison
of Willis CDC Draft 8A with the 1999
standards
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This complete version of the
1999 standards shows all the additions ostensibly
made by the Board writing team, color-coded to show
the source of the additions. Over 95% of the
additions are taken verbatim from Willis's CDC
draft A8. By Jack Krebs.
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6) Comparison
of Draft 5 with the 1999 standards
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This document, by Peter
Gegenheimer, shows all the deletions and additions
made to Draft 5 by the Board
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7) Abrams
/ Willis
CDC Draft 4A, May
1999
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This is the first draft written
by the Willis group, presented to the Board by
Steve Abrams in May, 1999 without revealing its
source. A number of statements from this draft are
also in CDC A8, and appear in the standards adopted
in 1999. The introduction in particular was so
outlandish that this version never came to a vote.
The lack of success of CDC Draft 4A prompted the
secretive tactics later used with CDC Draft
8A.
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8) 1995
Standards
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These are the 1995 standards. As
part of a complete curriculum standard overhaul in
all subjects, the Board instructed the science
writing team to add "greater clarity and
specificity" to these standards.
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