The greening of career education: US students learn new skills as climate crisis intensifies

Some districts are adding programs in clean energy and sustainability, while one state is infusing environmental lessons into culinary education and construction On one end of the classroom, high school juniors examined little green sprouts – future baby carrots, sprigs of romaine lettuce – poking out of the soil of a drip irrigation system they built a few weeks prior. On the opposite end of the room, a model of a hydropower plant showed students how the movement of water can stimulate electrical currents. In this class in South Carolina’s Greenville county school district, students primarily learn about one topic: renewable energy. Continue reading...

By Ariel Gilreath, the Hechinger Report