“We’re so pleased to support Katie’s mission to tell this critical story through the debut of her first book alongside The GroundTruth Project, and we are grateful to Columbia Global Reports for their help bringing Katie’s journalism to audiences across the country.” “Katie’s reporting on climate change for FRONTLINE has been essential - from examining the threat of rising seas on the Marshall Islands, to exploring the dire reality wildfires present to the West Coast, and now, to exposing the grave impact today’s science education could have on the future of our planet,” says FRONTLINE’s executive producer, Raney Aronson-Rath.
In MISEDUCATION, she offers damning evidence, based on her original investigative reporting, revealing that, in much of the country, children learn climate change may or may not actually be happening - even when alarming evidence can be found in their own backyards. Worth reviewed scores of textbooks, built a 50-state database and traveled to more than a dozen communities to talk to kids about what they have learned about the environmental crisis. “FRONTLINE and The GroundTruth Project’s support of this book and of Katie Worth’s intensive, multiyear investigative reporting was crucial and helped make this book a reality,” said Nicholas Lemann, director of Columbia Global Reports and a professor at Columbia Journalism School. This book, which exists because of the support of FRONTLINE and The GroundTruth Project, digs into how and why that happened.” Climate denial didn’t appear in schools spontaneously or by accident - to the contrary, there was a campaign to inculcate climate disinformation in the minds of American children. Others had heard about it but were told it wasn’t happening or it was natural, or it was no big deal. “But some of them have never heard the words ‘climate change’ in a classroom. “All the kids I met in three years of reporting were born into a century that will be absolutely defined by the climate crisis,” Worth says. In MISEDUCATION, she connects the dots between oil corporations, state legislatures, school boards, think tanks, lobbyists and textbook publishers who have played a key role in sowing uncertainty, confusion and distrust about climate science in American classrooms. Why are American children learning mixed or false messages about climate change? Who has tried to influence what children learn? How successful have they been? Worth spent years tracking down the answers to these questions. 16 from Columbia Global Reports, with support from FRONTLINE (PBS) and The GroundTruth Project. Yet one-third of young adults believe that climate change is not human-made.įormer FRONTLINE (PBS) investigative journalist Katie Worth ( The Last Generation) explores this pressing issue in her debut nonfiction book, MISEDUCATION: How Climate Change Is Taught in America.An alarming exposé on the climate denialism that’s being taught in the classrooms of millions of school kids, MISEDUCATION will be available to general audiences on Nov.
What they learn about climate change now will directly impact the speed and ambition of action taken for decades to come. No matter where they live, today’s kids will bear witness to human-caused climate catastrophes in their communities.
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Anne Husted Series Publicity Manager, FRONTLINEīy former FRONTLINE investigative reporter Katie Worth and published by Columbia Global Reports, “MISEDUCATION: How Climate Change Is Taught in America ” debuts this fall
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