{"id":944,"date":"2004-11-07T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/11\/the_crackpots_are_back_again\/"},"modified":"2004-11-07T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2004-11-07T20:00:15","slug":"the_crackpots_are_back_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/11\/the_crackpots_are_back_again.html","title":{"rendered":"THE CRACKPOTS ARE BACK, AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Oh, brother: A newly revised <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/EDUCATION\/11\/06\/evolution.schools.ap\/index.html\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>&#8220;science curriculum to allow the teaching of<br \/>\ncreationism&#8221;<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> is causing a ruckus in Wisconsin.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>A state law governing the teaching of evolution was regarded by a local school board as too<br \/>\nrestrictive, the AP reports. The science curriculum &#8220;should not be totally inclusive of just one<br \/>\nscientific theory,&#8221; said Joni Burgin, superintendent of the Grantsburg district of 1,000 students in<br \/>\nnorthwest Wisconsin.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The science curriculum? Evolution as one theory and creationism as another? It&#8217;s reassuring<br \/>\nto know that 43 deans at Wisconsin public universities have protested the revision, along with<br \/>\nhundreds of educators. Let&#8217;s see if the crackpots budge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, brother: A newly revised &#8220;science curriculum to allow the teaching of creationism&#8221; is causing a ruckus in Wisconsin. A state law governing the teaching of evolution was regarded by a local school board as too restrictive, the AP reports. The science curriculum &#8220;should not be totally inclusive of just one scientific theory,&#8221; said Joni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}