Teach Climate Change, not Christopher Columbus

Planet Gore on National Review Online

[from the U.K.’s Independent, July 2007:] “In one of my classes of 20 (a bachelor of education course on history and education), only one knew about Christopher Columbus. There is therefore some difficulty at university level of knowing how to build on what has been studied before.”

Many teachers at the conference were worried that the shake-up of the national curriculum — due to be announced next week — would put a further squeeze on history. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, the Government’s exams watchdog, is expected to call for more topic-related lessons — on themes such as global warming, creativeness and culture — rather than sticking to the traditional subject-based timetable.