American K-12 science education gone bad
written by David Wojick February 17, 2021
I don’t often write an article about someone else’s article but Shepard Barbash’s deeply researched piece “Science betrayed†deserves a wide readership. His subtitle says it all: “The propaganda infecting K–12 science curricula, especially on the environment, won’t go away.â€
Barbash first looks at the history, then where we are today. The entrenchment of the great green message really got going in the 60’s and 70’s, to the point where it is now just business as usual in teacher education and the textbooks. No wonder millions are marching.
But now it is getting systematically much worse. The so-called Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) govern over a third of America’s K-12 public school students, with more on the way. State science standards say what will be taught in each grade. The conventional state standards have been relatively neutral when it comes to green propaganda, while the NGSS are full of it. They also don’t care much for scientific knowledge.
The article is full of great quotes. On the history side here is a good one from 1983:
https://blog.heartland.org/2021/02/american-k-12-science-education-gone-bad/
