Science not for kids December 10, 2006 pm31 6:00 pm
Posted by jd2718 in Education, The Wide World, blogging.trackback
Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” is causing a fuss, again. Apparently Paramount agreed to provide DVDs to lots of science teachers (I can’t see where the number 50,000 came from, but it sounds ballpark) through the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) (which I frankly had never heard of, but that makes sense since I don’t teach science).
Anyhow, NSTA refuses, and my guess (government pressure) seems at least partially off: As U Dream of Janie documents here on her blog, cozy oil company relationships may be a larger, direct factor.
(You can view the trailer here.)
For what its worth, UFTers were distributing background on this to other UFTers at last week’s Delegate Assembly in Brooklyn (it was packed, but that’s another story).







Thanks for the link love, jd.
:)
[...] My previous entry was about the National Science Teachers Association <b>bold</> distributing thousands of free copies of <i>An Inconvenient Truth</> to science teachers. [...]
[...] Paramount Pictures was set to provide 50,000 copies of “An Inconvenient Truth” to science teachers through the National Science Teachers Association. NTSA refused to send out the film. Laurie David one of the film’s producers talk about NSTA refusals to send out the film to science teacher. Participate.net is now making copies of the film available to teachers for free. [...]
A Convenient Give Away
Participate.net is giving away 50,000 copies of An Inconvenient Truth to educators. Free copies go to the first 50,000 teachers to sign up, one DVD per teacher.
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