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'Evolution' back in teaching plan

By MARY MacDONALD
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/06/04

State Schools Superintendent Kathy Cox said Thursday she will recommend restoring the word "evolution" to Georgia's science teaching standards and apologized for taking it out.

But she did not commit to reinstating other deleted national teaching standards in the biology curriculum, which scientists say are needed if Georgia students are to fully understand evolution.

The state's proposed revision of the middle and high school science curriculum triggered a furious backlash from scientists, parents and politicians because, among other things, it replaced "evolution" with the phrase "biological changes over time."

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