education

COVID, climate, and equitable spaces: Why outdoor learning is more essential than ever

The founder of Green Schoolyards America on transforming how (and where) we teach kids.

How one school is getting kids fired up about climate solutions

“The fact that we leave climate discussions primarily to the natural sciences is itself part of the problem.”

Fire, displacement, diplomas: It’s graduation season in Paradise

Thousands of students still haven’t been able to return to their schools after the Camp Fire.

March for Science organizers say April 22 is just the beginning

They plan on kickstarting a global movement.

Phew! Texas textbook publisher ditches climate denial

Pearson, the world's largest education publisher, nixes climate denial from its Texas textbook. Huzzah!

Texas GOP officially comes out against critical thinking

Who needs book larnin': The Texas GOP’s platform is explicitly opposed to critical thinking skills in education.

These adorable kids are earning bikes by helping their community

[vimeo 43979135] The Rails to Trails Conservancy’s Earn-a-Bike program lets these Baltimore youths spend four weeks learning about bike maintenance, healthy eating, and caring for the Earth and their community — and at the end of it, they get a certificate and a bike. It’s a win all around: The kids get their own bicycles, the […]

GZA and Neil deGrasse Tyson team up on a hip-hop record about science

I do not know much about writing rap lyrics, but I’m guessing that most rappers do not meet with physicists and cosmologists from MIT and Cornell before sitting down to write. But that’s exactly what Wu-Tang Clan founding member GZA did during the creation of his new album, Dark Matter — a project the rapper […]

Farm-in-a-truck teaches kids about sustainability

Compass Green is a mobile greenhouse built into a truck, which runs on vegetable oil (natch). Handsome hipsters Nick Runkle and Justin Cutter retooled the truck, which was already fitted with Plexiglas display panels, to turn it into a biofuel-powered educational farm on wheels.