In 1995, Berliner and Biddle published The manufactured crisis: Myths, fraud, and the attack on America’s public schools. This was followed by Setting the record straight: Responses to misconceptions about public education in the United States, by Bracey; The death and life of the great American school system: How testing and choice are undermining education, by Ravitch; and a host of other books that examined the difference between the reality of the U.S. educational system and the mythology being disseminated by groups who, however well-intentioned they might have been, chose to view our schools and teachers as failures. This paper will apply the metaphor Berliner proposed of “Living in an Age of Disinformation” to discussions of climate change literacy that have occurred in the course of collaborations the author has had with chemistry/science educators in the U.S. and other countries.

Striving for climate change literacy in “The Age of Disinformation”

251st National Meeting (2016)

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