One-sided politics too often poisons the air we breathe as we think about climate change. This is particularly true when it ...
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 ...
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 ...
What do you think of when you hear the words climate change, Brittany Jefferson asked her fifth-graders. She moved around her classroom at Silver Lake’s Citizens of the World Charter School making eye ...
The world is chaos. It always has been. Since the dawn of the natural world necessitated a hierarchy of survival, living things have been… well, fighting for survival. And what rises to meet chaos?
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Students on the San Francisco Peninsula are taking advantage of a program that teaches lessons on climate change and building projects that mitigate its effects on the community ...
In the last couple of years, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Los Angeles County Office of Education and the state of California have affirmed their commitment to climate education for all ...
LA JOLLA, Calif. — On a Thursday this fall, hundreds of students at the University of California, San Diego, were heading to classes that, at least on paper, seemed to have very little to do with ...
A century ago, even as they were faced with mounting evidence of the dangers of leaded gasoline, policy makers were nevertheless swayed by oil companies’ arguments against regulation. It resulted in ...
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Brittany Jefferson teaches fifth-graders at Citizens of the World Charter School in Silver Lake. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) What do you think of when you hear the words climate change, ...
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 ...