Nearly half of all states scored a C+ or worse in their state science standards' treatment of climate change, according to a 2020 report by the National Center for Science Education and the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund.

The results of the study reveal that public education policymakers in many states are failing to ensure that science standards honestly and accurately address climate change. The scope and character of that failure are not uniform across the country, but they expose a serious deficit in the quality of science education in the United States.

In the wake of the study, several states — specifically Indiana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas — revised and improved their climate change science standards.

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