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Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America

Name: Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America
Brand: Columbia Global Reports
SKU: 9781735913643
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Contributors:

Katie Worth

Publisher:

Columbia Global Reports

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Education, Science

Book Subcategory:

Teaching, Global Warming & Climate Change, Environmental Science

Book Topic:

Subjects

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Release Date:

2021-11-16

ISBN 13:

9781735913643

Weight:

0.45 lbs

Size:

7.40 x 4.90 x 0.60 inches

Pages:

184

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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 instructors 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 on oil corporations, state legislatures, school boards, libertarian thinktanks, conservative lobbyists, and textbook publishers, all of whom have learned from the fight over evolution and tobacco, and are now sowing uncertainty, confusion, and distrust about climate science, with the result that four in five Americans today don't think there is a scientific consensus on global warming. In the words of a top climate educator, "We are the only country in the world that has had a multi-decade, multi-billion dollar deny-delay-confuse campaign." Miseducation is the alarming story of how climate denialism was implanted in millions of school children.

About the Author
Worth, Katie: - Katie Worth is an investigative journalist, who writes about science, politics, and their myriad intersections. She joined FRONTLINE in 2015 as the inaugural FRONTLINE-Columbia Tow Journalism Fellow, and in 2018 was selected as an O'Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism. She has worked on a number of FRONTLINE's enterprise reporting projects, including Framed for Murder by His Own DNA and Zika Uncontained. She co-produced the cinematic interactive story The Last Generation, which won an Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary, in addition to other awards. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, National Geographic, Slate, The Wall Street Journal and was included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016.