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The Hechinger Report

Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education

Category: Climate change: Are we ready?

This nine-part series explores how we’re teaching through climate change. We report on how climate change emergencies are disrupting student learning, exacerbating mental health problems, devastating school infrastructure, and how the coronavirus pandemic is a preview of what education looks like in a climate emergency. We also look at how textbooks are coming up short in teaching kids about climate, how medical schools are preparing future doctors, and how despite the obstacles some educators are finding ways to give students skills they need to better protect themselves and their communities.

Climate change is a health crisis. Are doctors prepared?

by Aditi Malhotra May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

This story was produced as part of the nine-part series “Are We Ready? How Schools Are Preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. On a gray, drizzly January afternoon, more than 80 students […]

How some Mississippi teens are saving their town from climate change

by Rebecca Klein May 23, 2020May 25, 2020

Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

by Caroline Preston May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

How will flooding affect your school?

by Pete D'Amato and Caroline Preston May 23, 2020November 23, 2020

How the science of vaccination is taught (or not) in US schools

by Rebecca Klein and Caroline Preston May 23, 2020May 26, 2020

Are we ready? How we are teaching – and not teaching – kids about climate change

by Rebecca Klein and Caroline Preston May 23, 2020May 27, 2020

Teaching among the ashes: ‘It’s not just your house that burned, it’s everyone’s’

by Caroline Preston May 23, 2020June 17, 2020

Why climate change caused me to rethink my career plans

by Ashley Thorshov May 23, 2020May 22, 2020

When the waters rise, how will we keep schools open?

by Sophie Kasakove May 23, 2020October 21, 2020
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