Miseducation : how climate change is taught in America /
Worth, Katie
Miseducation : how climate change is taught in America / Katie Worth. - 180 pages : map ; 20 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"Why are so many American children learning so much misinformation about climate change? Investigative reporter Katie Worth reviewed scores of textbooks, built a 50-state database, and traveled to a dozen communities to talk to children and teachers about what is being taught, and found a red-blue divide in climate education. More than one-third of young adults believe that climate change is not man-made, and science teachers who teach global warming are being contradicted by history teachers who tell children not to worry about it. Who has tried to influence what children learn, and how successful have they been? Worth connects the dots to find out how oil corporations, state legislatures, school boards, and textbook publishers sow uncertainty, confusion, and distrust about climate science. A thoroughly researched, eye-opening look at how some states do not want children to learn the facts about climate change"--
1735913642 9781735913643
2021017644
Climatic changes--Study and teaching.
Common fallacies
Environmental education
QC903 / .W683 2021
363.738/74071
Miseducation : how climate change is taught in America / Katie Worth. - 180 pages : map ; 20 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"Why are so many American children learning so much misinformation about climate change? Investigative reporter Katie Worth reviewed scores of textbooks, built a 50-state database, and traveled to a dozen communities to talk to children and teachers about what is being taught, and found a red-blue divide in climate education. More than one-third of young adults believe that climate change is not man-made, and science teachers who teach global warming are being contradicted by history teachers who tell children not to worry about it. Who has tried to influence what children learn, and how successful have they been? Worth connects the dots to find out how oil corporations, state legislatures, school boards, and textbook publishers sow uncertainty, confusion, and distrust about climate science. A thoroughly researched, eye-opening look at how some states do not want children to learn the facts about climate change"--
1735913642 9781735913643
2021017644
Climatic changes--Study and teaching.
Common fallacies
Environmental education
QC903 / .W683 2021
363.738/74071