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But after hearing an increasing number of anecdotes about K-12 teachers being challenged about how they taught climate science to their students, she says she began to see "parallels" between the two debates --namely, an idrivegical drive from pressure groups to "teach the controversy" where no scientific controversy exists.
She taught Climate Change and Public Health at Portland State University.
Thousands protested fossil fuels, thousands of scientists warned of an increasingly dangerous climate and showed ways to avoid much of it, educators taught climate change in classrooms, religious people took a moral stand, and many thousands called for divestment from fossil fuels.
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While thousands of schools in the United States already teach climate change to some degree, they are usually doing it voluntarily, and often in environmental studies classes.
In our anti-teacher world and scripted teaching climate perpetuated by corporate reformers, what room is there for the teachers we want for our kids?
These included the American Legislative Exchange Council, which, among other things, advocates teaching climate denial to schoolchildren, and the National Black Chamber of Commerce, which asserts on its Web site, "Actually, there is no sound science to support the claims of Global Warming".
And a December survey from the National Earth Science Teachers Associationn found that 36% of its 555 K-12 teachers who currently teach climate science had been "influenced" to "teach the controversy".
The methods for teaching climate change in Texas are under fire.
And if you're a university that teaches climate science, it's time to stand up for your scientists.
Finally, I have a new desire to share with other teachers how to effectively teach climate change, the most important problem we will face in the coming decades.
Last week, Treehugger and ThinkProgress reported that the South Dakota state legislature passed a resolution to urge schools to teach climate science and facts about global warming as "astrological" and "cosmological" theories rather than hard science.
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