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"Including one of the people responsible for Common Core."
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new presidential initiative will target students and teachers in an effort to sell global warming to the next generation.Keep reading…
President Barack Obama is gathering educators, government officials, nonprofit leaders and others at the White House on Wednesday to strategize about the best ways to spread the administration’s views on climate change to public school students specifically, and the public in general, according to U.S. News and World Report.
The initiative coincides with the implementation of new “Next Generation Science Standards,” which “place an increased emphasis” on climate change and evolution. Those new standards “were developed by a group of national science and education organizations – including one also involved in developing the Common Core …,” the news site reports.
“Under President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, important steps have already been taken to cut carbon pollution, prepare for the impacts of climate change and lead international efforts to fight this global challenge,” according to a White House fact sheet.