Posted on 12/16/2015 5:27:54 AM PST by simpson96
Last Saturday, delegates from 195 countries signed a historic pact on human-made climate change. Following two weeks of debate in a Paris suburb, they agreed to lower their planet-warming pollution and to establish international monitoring and reporting of it.
But in many American classrooms, students are debating whether pollution warms the planet at all. According to a recent survey by the National Center for Science Education, 40 percent of teachers present human-made climate change as "controversial."
That's the result of a concerted effort by right-wing activists to raise specious questions about established science. And it harms the effort to teach truly controversial questions, which have too often been neglected in our schools.(snip)
How can our students become informed citizens, if we don't challenge the disinformation that is all around them?
For most of our history, teachers have been discouraged or barred from addressing controversial issues. Now that they're allowed to do so, it would be a true tragedy if they let a pseudo-debate get in the way of an actual one. Thereâs no controversy about whether humans have changed the climate. The real question, as we learned in Paris, is what they should do about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Like North Korea, Leftists in the US demand 100% agreement and compliance with their every thought.
Thanks to the NEA and leftist educators everywhere, there is No Critical Thinking Allowed in US schools.
This fellow is a true scientist: I declare it so, so it must be so.
Prof of Ed.. Clearly an emotional thinker.
And, of course...
The ONLY solution is for bigger and bigger government, more and more regulations and higher and higher taxes.
And maybe ban some things.
Left-wing extremists in the media are really reaching.
In other words, he is not a specialist in a period of history, he is a professor on the history of education.
I have a history of education for you. Start with Socrates and end with the NEA, from the world's greatest teacher to the end of teaching with a Washington D.C. based union of the incompetent [not to knock the many fine teachers out there].
Why use the word “deniers”?
Why not just call us what you think we really are? : heretics
The right-wingers always have to come behind the lefties and clean up their messes. If it weren’t for us we’d have no country left. So... “Thanks to right-wing deniers, schools still sow seeds of doubt over climate change...” then may their tribe increase - and soon!
We’re climate infidels.
Should be 100% Jonathan.
5.56mm
Some of the hallmarks of good science are transparency, repeatable results, documented methodology, and reviewable data.
The "Climate Change" proponents have none of that.
Sounds like Jonathan’s been drinking the Kool Aid.
Sometimes, you don't know enough to have an opinion. These "debates" simply re-hash the opinions of others, and more likely, their parents and teachers.
“Right-wingers” prefer actual science over “settled science.”
CO2 isn’t “pollution”
Its “What Plants Crave”
Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of (get this) History of Education. LOL. That by itself is pretty funny. As for the article, its not even worth reading.
Groupthink.
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