• People

One Cool Thing: Surprise Climate Scholarship

• Jane Fonda
• schools
• youth activism

Shiva Rajbhandari and his classmates at Boise High School got more than they bargained for when they wrote a letter to a celebrity, asking if she would financially sponsor a student to take a Boise State University class on climate change. Instead, actress and activist Jane Fonda called Rajbhandari and offered to pay for everyone’s climate education. “It was the […]

• Climate Change

Minority Students Feel The Heat: When Temps Rise, Performance Falls

• Black
• classrooms
• education
• heat
• Hispanic
• minority
• redlining
• schools
• test scores

New research finds that higher temperatures and heat exposure can harm children’s learning across the globe. However, in the US, researchers found that only Black and Hispanic children are affected by this trend.

Why This Matters: A 2019 study showed that predominantly non-white school districts receive about $23 billion less on average than predominantly white school districts.

• People

New Jersey to Teach Climate Change to Its 1.4 Million Students

• climate change
• education
• New Jersey
• schools

Last week the New Jersey State Board of Education adopted First Lady Tammy Murphy’s initiative to make New Jersey the first state in the nation to incorporate climate change in its K-12 curriculum. “In New Jersey, we have already begun to experience the effects of climate change, from our disappearing shorelines, to harmful algal blooms […]

• Climate Change

School boards neglecting climate change, claiming action is too political

• climate change
• education
• schools
• students

  Teaching kids about climate change in school is critical and a growing group of teachers around the country are pushing for school boards to make this curriculum mandatory. Park Guthrie, who teaches sixth grade at a school in Occidental, California decided to take action and founded Schools for Climate Action (S4CA), doing so right before […]