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NCSE was prominently featured in "Climate Curricula Hit US Schools," published in Sierra, the national magazine of the Sierra Club, on September 28, 2020.
NCSE's Deputy Director Glenn Branch was quoted as emphasizing the importance of K-12 climate education: "In general, public schools are going to be the last place where the majority of the population has formal instruction in the area of science, including climate science," adding, "So to leverage it … is a good way of increasing public understanding of the seriousness of climate change."
NCSE Teacher Ambassadors Stel Walker and Chance Duncan were interviewed. Duncan appeared both at the beginning of the article, helping to defuse a legislator's attempt to block new state science standards in Arkansas in 2015, and at the end, commenting that if students "can leave high school understanding how they impact the environment and can make better choices about transportation or energy usage … I think that makes them better adults."
Also mentioned in the article was the 2014-2015 NCSE/Penn State national survey (PDF) of climate change educators.
