How Climate Change is Taught in America
The Harvard EdCast
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How Did You Decide Which States to Visit?
I went to several states, often states where I knew there to be political battles over what was being taught in school. So for example, Idaho, there was basically a five year battle over whether to include climate change in the science standards. In my own home state of California, which was really interesting because I grew up in a little college town called Chico,. It's a liberal community, although it's in a very red county. There had been conflict between a science teacher and a history teacher over whether they should be teaching climate change.
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