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New science standards call for teaching climate change and more
2013-04-10 02:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The politically touchy topic of climate change will be taught more deeply to students under proposed new national science standards released Tuesday. The Next Generation Science Standards, developed over the last year by California and 25 other states in conjunction with several national scientific organizations, represent the first effort in some 15 years to transform the way science is taught in million of classrooms. The multi-state consortium is proposing that students learn fewer standards...
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Climate change included in US science teaching guidelines for the first time
2013-04-10 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: American school children will for the first time receive extensive lessons on climate change following the adoption on Tuesday of new science education guidelines. However, the final standards were substantially weakened from earlier drafts. The final guidelines cut by about a third the amount of time devoted to a subject seen as critical to future generations. They are also less explicit than earlier drafts about the human role as a driver for climate change. "It's buried at best," said...
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Margaret Thatcher, science advice and climate change
2013-04-09 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: We've been running a series of essays on scientific advice recently (e.g. yesterday's piece by Shelia Jasanoff). It's on a break today, but here's something on a related issue. Margaret Thatcher is often celebrated for her leadership on the issue of climate change. Read, if you haven't already, her 1989 speech to the UN for example. Or the 1988 one to the Royal Society. Or to the 2nd World Climate Conference in 1990. You might be surprised. The image of Thatcher the global environmental leader...
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Conference Examines Science Behind Large-Scale Production
2013-04-08 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - 'Does big mean bad? The science behind large scale production' is the theme of a conference at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh on 23 to 24 May 2013.
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Some Philadelphia Teachers Get Free Science Training
2013-04-06 14:23:05| Chemicals - Topix.net
Chemist Frank Zawacki showed kids at the Hill Freedman Middle School in West Oak Lane what happens when you drip a sodium alginate solution into calcium chloride.
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