How is climate change really taught in our schools?

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Tom Young investigates why proposals to drop climate science from the national curriculum will make little difference in the classroom

Tim Oates, the head of a government review of school syllabuses, suggested this week that the teaching of climate change should be dropped from the national curriculum in favour of "real science". As...

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