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 Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:55 am Post subject: News: Creationist school fights ruling. |
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June 2, 2008, 11:14PM
Creationist school fights ruling
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5815341.html
Institute appeals state's decision to prevent offering of science
education degree
By JEANNIE KEVER
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
A Bible-based school and research institute has asked the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board to reverse its decision not to allow the
school to offer a master's degree in science education.
A spokesman for the Institute for Creation Research said the appeal
"paves the way" for it to file a lawsuit against the state agency.
But first, the issue will go to an administrative hearing. Joe
Stafford, assistant commissioner for academic affairs and research at
the coordinating board, said the independent Office of Administrative
Hearings has 180 days to hear the case.
Institute spokesman Lawrence Ford said the voluminous appeal — it is
755 pages long, including supporting documents — is based upon a claim
of "viewpoint discrimination."
The appeal described the board's decision as "academic (and religious)
bigotry masquerading as Texas Education Code 'enforcement.' "
Board members and staff are accused of denying the request in April
because the institute and its leaders believe the biblical version of
the Earth's creation is literally true.
Institute CEO Henry Morris III said last spring his school's program
includes information about evolution, although he and others
affiliated with the school don't accept the proof of evolution offered
by mainstream scientists.
Board members and Higher Education Commissioner Raymund Paredes said
they were concerned the degree would not equip graduates to teach
science in Texas' public schools.
The real issue, Stafford said Monday, is whether the institute's
course work — offered online and still available, although not
accredited — fits the label of the proposed degree.
The disputed degree is a Master of Science in science education.
"Either the curriculum or the label has to change," Stafford said.
"That label has a particular meaning of preparing somebody as a
science teacher."
Paredes reiterated that in a May 21 letter to Morris. "It was
determined that the designation of the degree and the content of the
degree were not adequately aligned," he wrote. "Approval would require
either a change in the designation of the degree or a change in the
content covered."
The institute is not inclined to do either, Ford said.
Both the institute and the coordinating board have posted on their Web
sites (www.icr.org and www.thecb.state.tx.us) a 371-page document
prepared by the institute last spring to describe its program.
The coordinating board has also posted the institute's appeal
documents.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:05 am Post subject: Re: News: Creationist school fights ruling. |
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On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:55:24 GMT, Ye Old One <usenet@mcsuk.net> wrote:
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June 2, 2008, 11:14PM
Creationist school fights ruling
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5815341.html
Institute appeals state's decision to prevent offering of science
education degree
By JEANNIE KEVER
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
A Bible-based school and research institute has asked the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board to reverse its decision not to allow the
school to offer a master's degree in science education.
A spokesman for the Institute for Creation Research said the appeal
"paves the way" for it to file a lawsuit against the state agency.
But first, the issue will go to an administrative hearing. Joe
Stafford, assistant commissioner for academic affairs and research at
the coordinating board, said the independent Office of Administrative
Hearings has 180 days to hear the case.
Institute spokesman Lawrence Ford said the voluminous appeal — it is
755 pages long, including supporting documents — is based upon a claim
of "viewpoint discrimination."
The appeal described the board's decision as "academic (and religious)
bigotry masquerading as Texas Education Code 'enforcement.' "
Board members and staff are accused of denying the request in April
because the institute and its leaders believe the biblical version of
the Earth's creation is literally true.
Institute CEO Henry Morris III said last spring his school's program
includes information about evolution, although he and others
affiliated with the school don't accept the proof of evolution offered
by mainstream scientists.
Board members and Higher Education Commissioner Raymund Paredes said
they were concerned the degree would not equip graduates to teach
science in Texas' public schools.
The real issue, Stafford said Monday, is whether the institute's
course work — offered online and still available, although not
accredited — fits the label of the proposed degree.
The disputed degree is a Master of Science in science education.
"Either the curriculum or the label has to change," Stafford said.
"That label has a particular meaning of preparing somebody as a
science teacher."
Paredes reiterated that in a May 21 letter to Morris. "It was
determined that the designation of the degree and the content of the
degree were not adequately aligned," he wrote. "Approval would require
either a change in the designation of the degree or a change in the
content covered."
The institute is not inclined to do either, Ford said.
Both the institute and the coordinating board have posted on their Web
sites (www.icr.org and www.thecb.state.tx.us) a 371-page document
prepared by the institute last spring to describe its program.
The coordinating board has also posted the institute's appeal
documents.
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Since one of the requirements of accreditation by Texas is that they
apply for accreditation by Southern, do they really want this? I notice
that they never applied for accreditation by the regional in California,
why would they do it in Texas? |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:23 am Post subject: Re: News: Creationist school fights ruling. |
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On Jun 6, 11:55 pm, Ye Old One <use...@mcsuk.net> wrote:
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June 2, 2008, 11:14PM
Creationist school fights ruling
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5815341.html
Institute appeals state's decision to prevent offering of science
education degree
By JEANNIE KEVER
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
A Bible-based school and research institute has asked the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board to reverse its decision not to allow the
school to offer a master's degree in science education.
A spokesman for the Institute for Creation Research said the appeal
"paves the way" for it to file a lawsuit against the state agency.
But first, the issue will go to an administrative hearing. Joe
Stafford, assistant commissioner for academic affairs and research at
the coordinating board, said the independent Office of Administrative
Hearings has 180 days to hear the case.
Institute spokesman Lawrence Ford said the voluminous appeal — it is
755 pages long, including supporting documents — is based upon a claim
of "viewpoint discrimination."
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Yes, those immoral scientists hold to the viewpoint that one shouldn't
lie to children about science.
How terrible that they should not allow the alternative viewpoint that
provided one proclaims vociferously that one is a True Christian it's
perfectly acceptable to lie through ones teeth.
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The appeal described the board's decision as "academic (and religious)
bigotry masquerading as Texas Education Code 'enforcement.' "
Board members and staff are accused of denying the request in April
because the institute and its leaders believe the biblical version of
the Earth's creation is literally true.
Institute CEO Henry Morris III said last spring his school's program
includes information about evolution,
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That "information" being at best very limited and deliberately
misleading, and at worst a pack of lies.
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although he and others
affiliated with the school don't accept the proof of evolution offered
by mainstream scientists.
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There is no other scientific theory which explains the diversity of
living organisms, the fossil record ,and most of biology, it's not
just "mainstream scientists" but virtually every scientist on the
planet who is not motivated by religious dogmatism.
RF
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Board members and Higher Education Commissioner Raymund Paredes said
they were concerned the degree would not equip graduates to teach
science in Texas' public schools.
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The real issue, Stafford said Monday, is whether the institute's
course work — offered online and still available, although not
accredited — fits the label of the proposed degree.
The disputed degree is a Master of Science in science education.
"Either the curriculum or the label has to change," Stafford said.
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"That label has a particular meaning of preparing somebody as a
science teacher."
Paredes reiterated that in a May 21 letter to Morris. "It was
determined that the designation of the degree and the content of the
degree were not adequately aligned," he wrote. "Approval would require
either a change in the designation of the degree or a change in the
content covered."
The institute is not inclined to do either, Ford said.
Both the institute and the coordinating board have posted on their Web
sites (www.icr.organdwww.thecb.state.tx.us) a 371-page document
prepared by the institute last spring to describe its program.
The coordinating board has also posted the institute's appeal
documents.
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