Topeka? Kansas has the nation’s worst science standards for public schools, a national education group says, condemning the state for rewriting its definition of science and treating evolution as a ...

TOPEKA, Kan. – Revisiting a topic that exposed Kansas to nationwide ridicule six years ago, the state Board of Education approved science standards for public schools Tuesday that cast doubt on the ...

(TNS) — Two years ago, Nick Poels decided he wanted K-12 students in his rural Kansas community of 2,500 to learn to code. Kids in Phillipsburg soon had a brand-new computer lab, and Poels hoped 20 or ...

Kansas is set to adopt science standards that encourage the exploration of alternatives to the theory of evolution. Science groups are mobilizing to oppose the changes. The groups have said they will ...

TOPEKA, Kan. – An anti-evolution group filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to block Kansas from using new, multistate science standards in its public schools, arguing the guidelines promote atheism and ...

The Kansas Board of Education is thinking about reviewing science standards, but with a twist.Kansas and Missouri may join other states in a national review of how science is taught in the ...

Taylor Howell works on a Java coding assignment in Lisa Whallon's class at Olathe Northwest High School. A teenager wakes up, gets ready for school. Slips a smartphone into her pocket on the way out ...

We often associate April with the showers that bring May flowers, and of course, April Fool’s Day. But there’s more to April than that. April is Citizen Science Month. For many people “science” is the ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Science Festival was held in downtown Manhattan today. Poyntz Avenue was closed between 3rd and 5th Streets to assure the safety of all participants and provide ...

Students in Phillipsburg, Kansas use a new computer lab that opened before the pandemic. This photo was taken in 2019. It has 25 workstations with self-guided curriculum for computer science and ...