As the climate crisis intensifies, more states are considering mandating that climate topics be introduced across grade levels and subjects. Credit: Alastair Grant/Associated Press The Hechinger ...
A 2021 survey found that 99.9 percent of climate-related studies agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans. But the topic is still hotly debated online, and climate-change misinformation ...
Students in Vicki Sando’s class at PS 41 draw up their plans for a container to protect a sea turtle egg. Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education ...
If it ain’t broke, the government will break it for you. That seems to be the lesson to draw from other nations that have implemented climate change energy plans similar to the ones Obama recently ...
Cara Buckley, a Climate reporter for The New York Times, visited an elementary school in Lawrenceville, N.J., where students are encouraged to talk about complex environmental issues. By Josh Ocampo ...
New York may soon join a growing number of states seeking to incorporate climate change into school lesson plans. By Hilary Howard Third graders at Public School 103 in the north Bronx sat on a rug ...
Oregon lawmakers are aiming to make the state the second in the nation to mandate climate change lessons for K-12 public school students, further fueling U.S. culture wars in education. Dozens of ...
High school freshman DeWayne Murphy has a big idea for a new green technology. "There's going to be a tank and it should be like a big giant metal tank," he explains to climate scientist Ben Kravitz ...
This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. On a Thursday this fall, hundreds of students at the ...
Angelique Hammack, a teacher in California, creates lesson plans about climate change for the website SubjectToClimate. She often starts from a question posed by one of her four children. Her ...
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers are aiming to make the state the second in the nation to mandate climate change lessons for K-12 public school students, further fueling U.S. culture wars in ...