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What Are the A-B-Cs of Teaching Climate Change in Math, Language Arts?
State Board of Education divided over whether climate change really should be part of every academic discipline
HANNAH GROSS / NJ SPOTLIGHT NEWS — New Jersey may be first state in the country in to require climate change be broadly taught in schools, but there remains plenty of debate about how to put that responsibility into practice.
In what is typically a routine vote, the state Board of Education on Wednesday only narrowly passed the state’s new learning standards in math and language arts, with the inclusion of climate change education being the main sticking point …
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