Carine Verscheuen, a post-doctoral researcher in Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, was featured in the Hechinger Report newsletter.
The newsletter featured research from a conference organized by the Brown University SustainableED program, at which Verscheuen presented.
From the article:
“After participating in a math lesson incorporating information on renewable energy, U.S. students were more likely to say they knew about climate change and felt some hope about combating it. Children in India who learned about air pollution in arts lessons were more likely to understand the environmental problem, but not necessarily to change their behavior in ways that might alleviate it.
Verscheuen’s research found that 60 of the nation’s 200 largest school districts have adopted environmental and sustainability policies compared to 51 in 2020. A growing share of the policies discuss climate change and climate justice, often because of activism from students, whose role was mentioned in many of the documents, Verschueren said. School districts were motivated to adopt the policies for a variety of reasons — including conserving resources, promoting student and staff health, saving money, and empowering students.”
