Andreas Schleicher, who supervises PISA in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, told me that the test is designed to promote the sense of student agency. He says that it will be based in material that has a long leg in schools in countries, including Japan and Canada.
Meanwhile, at home in the United States, scientific educators are circulating the climate literacy guide such as “Samizdat”, the term for the self -edge of prohibited books in the former Soviet Union. Colorado He quotes the guide In updated state science standards, currently under review. And the University of Washington A new page was added With a copy of the guide of an existing open educational resource called Voice Teaching Tools, which has between 10,000 and 15,000 visitors per months.
The education consultant Deb Morrison, who worked at the Stem teaching tools resource, says they rushed to free him in time for the National Conference on Scientific Education In Philadelphia in March, where heroes on the sessions of boxes on the subject for science teachers across the country.
“I would say that educators in each state are teaching climate,” he said. “You can frame to handle the type of tensions that existed in different places, to be able to meet people where they, but are still teaching climate in Florida, in mine, in Mississippi, in Oregon, in Alabama.”
That said, Morrison said that the elimination of the guide of his Dot.gov domain, not to mention the cancellation of the basic collection of government data on the climate, raises a challenge not only to scientific knowledge, but also to equity, justice and democracy.
“Now we are voting based on opinion or pseudo-experience in different spaces, and no one is real learning and the use of evidence.”
For Schleicher, also, advancing in climate literacy through PISA is a key part of a broader project to promote scientific knowledge as a basis of international cooperation. In a world where you can find whole YouTube channels dedicated to the proposal that the Earth is flat, he said, “science performs consensus among people in an objective reality based on evidence.” Without that, it is difficult to imagine a peaceful or prosperous future for anyone.
One note: this is my final climate and education column for the Hexhainger report, with the support of this planet at the Aspen Institute. I have contributed to this series since 2022 and I have covered early education through the development of workforce, traditional and indigenous knowledge, climate narration in children’s media and more. It has been an honor and you can find my continuous independent coverage of these tops here in Heringer, in Grist and in me Weekly Bulletin. You can also register at the Climate Change and Climate Change Bulletin Gentleman.
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