Support for climate change education dips in Florida
Publisher: In-Sight Publishing
Publisher Founding: September 1, 2014
Publisher Location: Fort Langley, Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Publication: Critical Science Newswire
Original Link: https://ncse.ngo/support-climate-change-education-dips-florida
Publication Date: May 24, 2024
Organization: National Center for Science Education
Organization Description: The National Center for Science Education promotes and defends accurate and effective science education because everyone deserves to engage with the evidence. One day, students of all ages will be scientifically literate, teachers will be prepared and empowered to teach accurate science, and scientific thinking and decision-making will ensure that all life can thrive and overcome challenges to our shared future.
By Glenn Branch
The degree of support for climate change education in the Sunshine State’s public schools dipped a bit over the last two years, according to a new survey from Florida Atlantic University.
Presented with the proposition “Florida schools should teach the causes, consequences, and solutions to climate change in our K-12 classrooms,” 67.2 percent of respondents strongly supported (32.5 percent) or supported (34.7 percent) it, with 21.2 percent neither supporting nor opposing it, and 11.6 percent opposing (7.6 percent) or strongly opposing (4 percent) it.
When a similar survey was administered in 2022, 71.3 percent of respondents presented with the same proposition strongly supported (37.3 percent) or supported (34 percent) it, with 19.6 percent neither supporting nor opposing it, and 9.2 percent opposing (5.9 percent) or strongly opposing (3.3 percent) it, as NCSE previously reported.
The 2024 Florida Climate Resilience Survey survey was conducted from March 18 to 21, 2024, with an online panel of 1400 Floridians age 18 and older. Responses for the entire sample were weighted to adjust for age, race, income, education and gender according to 2022 U.S. Bureau of the Census data. The margin of error for the whole sample was +/- 2.53 percent.
Florida’s science standards received a D for their treatment of climate change in the “Making the Grade?” report from NCSE and the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund.
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