Miseducation : how climate change is taught in America /
Why are so many American children learning so much misinformation about climate change? Investigative reporter Katie Worth reviewed scores of textbooks, built a fifty-state database and traveled to a dozen communities to talk to children and teachers about what is being taught, and found a red-blue...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia Global Reports,
[2021].
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| Summary: | Why are so many American children learning so much misinformation about climate change? Investigative reporter Katie Worth reviewed scores of textbooks, built a fifty-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 manmade, 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 180 pages : map ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781735913643 1735913642 |