"An Inconvenient Truth" for free? Get Exxon on the phone!
In case you had not heard, Al Gore has generously offered to donate a large number of copies of his film, "An Inconvenient Truth" to schools to help bring the global warming issue into the nation's classrooms. Unsurprisingly, this has stirred opposing forces to block the deal. Also unsurprisingly, those forces have to be careful to cover their tracks.
The copious details can be found in this blog post, The NSTA Is Feeding Us A Line. The short version of the story: the NSTA, as assoication of science teachers that was given the offer of free DVDs, did not want to alienate benfactors like Exxon. ExxonMobil, Shell Oil, ConocoPhillips and the American Petroleum Institute. So they put their institutional interests ahead of all else. Nice to know that our kids' science education is in good hands, eh? Hat tip to blogger JD2718 for finding this post.
The copious details can be found in this blog post, The NSTA Is Feeding Us A Line. The short version of the story: the NSTA, as assoication of science teachers that was given the offer of free DVDs, did not want to alienate benfactors like Exxon. ExxonMobil, Shell Oil, ConocoPhillips and the American Petroleum Institute. So they put their institutional interests ahead of all else. Nice to know that our kids' science education is in good hands, eh? Hat tip to blogger JD2718 for finding this post.
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