NCSE was featured in a story in The New York Times (June 15, 2023) about the incorporation of climate change throughout New Jersey's state education standards.
The story noted, "[A]cross the country, climate change is taught unevenly and often anemically. A 2016 study" — specifically, "Mixed Messages" (PDF), by researchers at NCSE and Penn State — found that while climate issues were taught by three-quarters of public school science teachers, many students got less than two hours of climate education a year."
The story added, "In some states, there has been strong resistance to incorporating climate science into classroom learning. Though none ban global warming education, according to Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, some states falsely frame climate science as a matter of debate."
NCSE and the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund systematically evaluated the treatment of climate change in state science standards in 2020.
