For @nytimes: Many States Omit Climate Education. These Teachers Are Trying To Slip It In. Around the United States, middle school science standards have minimal references to climate change and teachers on average spend just a few hours a year teaching it. I drove out to the coast last week and spent a free period with Jerry Walther, a natural resources teacher at Quinault Indian Nation in Tahlolah, WA as part of Winston Choi-Schagrin's reporting. When Walther's students look at the ocean and rivers, the class inevitably begins talking about climate change, about how the water is warming and harmful algal blooms they’ve all witnessed, he said. “For three years we haven’t been able to fish sockeye. How is it affecting our way of life, and how can we ourselves try to change it?” Walther tells his students “This is your responsibility to your community. You are supposed to leave the land, if not the same, then better than it was for your grandchildren.” Read Choi-Schagrin’s story on climate education across the country, up now.