The Brockporter Climate Change Watch - Are we educating our children for what they are in for?

From NPR web site on 03/27/13:

"National Public Radio highlighted climate change education in a segment of its Morning Edition show broadcast on March 27, 2013, featuring NCSE's Mark McCaffrey. "By the time today's K-12 students grow up, the challenges posed by climate change are expected to be severe and sweeping," the segment began. "Now, for the first time, new nationwide science standards due out this month [i.e., the Next Generation Science Standards, now expected in April 2013] will recommend that U.S. public school students learn about this climatic shift taking place."

McCaffrey told NPR, "the state of climate change education in the U.S. is abysmal," citing survey data indicating that only one in five students "feel like they've got a good handle on climate change from what they've learned in school" and that two in three students feel that they're not learning much about it at all in their schools. NCSE's recent report "Toward a Climate & Energy Literate Society" (PDF) was cited as offering recommendations for improving climate and energy literacy in the United States over the course of the next decade."

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