Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom
Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade.
Scientific American,
2022
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Scientific American contributor Katie Worth spent multiple hours watching hearings, scouring public records and interviewing educators to uncover efforts by oil and gas industry lobbyists to fundamentally change how climate issues are discussed and taught in Texas public schools. Their efforts to alter textbooks and lesson plans, largely successful, could affect how millions of American children understand and respond to climate change.
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About the Author
Katie Worth is a freelance writer in Boston. She is the author of Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America.
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