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Science not for kids December 10, 2006 pm31 6:00 pm

Posted by jd2718 in Education, The Wide World, blogging.
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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).

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1. JanieBelle - December 10, 2006 pm31 6:58 pm

Thanks for the link love, jd.

:)

2. Giving the science back to the kids « JD2718 - December 12, 2006 pm31 4:42 pm

[...] 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. [...]

3. Edwize » A Convenient Gift - December 23, 2006 am31 2:19 am

[...] 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. [...]

4. UDreamOfJanie - December 23, 2006 pm31 5:17 pm

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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