To: Textbook publishers McGraw-Hill and Pearson Education
Publishers McGraw-Hill & Pearson Education: Remove climate change denial from school textbooks.
Don't lie to students about climate change. Remove inaccurate passages from textbooks that mislead students about the reality of climate change, and show your commitment to scholarship and integrity.
Why is this important?
Do you want an entire generation of children using textbooks that call into question the existence of climate change?
Well, we’ve got two weeks to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Two of the biggest textbook publishers in the country — Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education — have proposed new social studies textbooks in Texas that include inaccurate and misleading information about climate change.
Instead of learning the truth, a generation of students could be reading propaganda like this in their textbook:
• McGraw-Hill Education (World Cultures & Geography) – includes information pulled directly from the Heartland Institute, a polluter-funded advocacy group infamous for its anti-climate change propaganda.
• Pearson (Social Studies K-5) – Tells students, “Scientists disagree about what is causing climate change.”
If those books are approved in Texas on November 21, climate-change denial could find its way into textbooks around the nation.
Help convince publishers to correct these problems.
Well, we’ve got two weeks to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Two of the biggest textbook publishers in the country — Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education — have proposed new social studies textbooks in Texas that include inaccurate and misleading information about climate change.
Instead of learning the truth, a generation of students could be reading propaganda like this in their textbook:
• McGraw-Hill Education (World Cultures & Geography) – includes information pulled directly from the Heartland Institute, a polluter-funded advocacy group infamous for its anti-climate change propaganda.
• Pearson (Social Studies K-5) – Tells students, “Scientists disagree about what is causing climate change.”
If those books are approved in Texas on November 21, climate-change denial could find its way into textbooks around the nation.
Help convince publishers to correct these problems.