Quality of Environmental Texts Found Uneven

Washington

Environmental education textbooks and other materials are uneven in quality, and some focus too much on inspiring students' concern for environmental problems rather than building fact-based knowledge, a panel of scientists and academics has found.

But despite heated debate in recent years about biased materials coming to schools from groups advocating one environmental position or other, the group found no relationship between the quality or accuracy of environmental education materials and the type of organization that...