Can Green Education Save The Planet?
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As the transformation to a sustainable future marches on, there is a need and an opportunity for education to play a critical role, according to this new Brookings Institute Report. The Report finds that the U.S. public education is among the most powerful tools for solving climate but our public education is lagging behind the crisis.
The Report suggests a new green learning agenda involves three approaches:
Approach 1 – Technical education and training aimed at “skills for green jobs” through a gender-transformative approach;
Approach 2 – Building “green life skills” or pro-environmental behaviors focused on climate climate change education (CCE) and education for sustainable development (ESD);
Letâs Hear What High Schoolers Think
The winners of our student letter-writing competition offer opinions about anti-Asian bias, police brutality, financial literacy, meatless meat and more.
May 8, 2021, 11:00 a.m. ET
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To the Editor:
As an Asian-American, I applaud the Senateâs swift, bipartisan passage of the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act. The measure, however, constitutes a mere first step in the fight against anti-Asian violence. To further combat such bigotry, we must also promote Asian-American representation in education curriculums.
Teaching the Asian-American experience is imperative because U.S. history chroniclers often neglect it. In most textbooks, weâre invisible, relegated to a few short paragraphs, even footnotes. That erases our stories from the record, perpetuating ignorance and contributing to our mischaracterization as a monolithic âmodel minorityâ or foreign threat, thus allowing xenophobia and dis
Only 8 Black students admitted into elite NYC public high school
Mayor de Blasio has called for state legislation to replace the admissions exam. Bill de Blasio’s new education boss, Chancellor
Meisha Ross Porter, is speaking out following reports that only a tiny percentage of Black and Latino students had been admitted into the city’s elite high schools.
Per Department of Education data, Black and Latino kids made up only 9 percent of the total admission offers to elite schools like Stuyvesant High School and Bronx High School of Science, down 11 percent from last year, per
New York Times. Out of the 749 available freshman seats at Stuyvesant, only eight Black students received offers. Only one Black student was accepted into Staten Island Technical High School, out of 281 spots, according to the report. Over half of the 4,262 offers for the 2021 school year went to Asian students.
Star Polymers, Space Origami and Singing Finches: The Winners of Our 2nd Annual STEM Writing Contest
From snake venom and egg shells to Alzheimer’s and Covid-19, students explain concepts from the world of science, technology, engineering and math.
Two of our top 11 winners wrote about why sleep is essential for maintaining our brain’s physiological functioning and how it might help prevent dementia. Jocelyn Tan, 15, used this Opinion piece about the glymphatic system as a source for her essay.
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April 29, 2021
Where do scientists and science writers get their ideas? They pay close attention to the world around them and ask questions, then look for answers to the ones that fascinate them most.
In a school system whose total enrollment is 41% Latino, 26% Black, 16% Asian and 15% white, the specialized high schools have grown disproportionately Asian and white over the past years.