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Scientists and parents tell SBOE middle‑school climate materials need correction; publishers named in public testimony
Summary
More than a dozen public testifiers told the State Board of Education that textbook and publisher materials used for eighth‑grade climate science contain factual errors or misleading presentations; testifiers urged the board and TEA to require corrections or replacements.
Public testimony at the June 27 Texas State Board of Education meeting focused heavily on middle‑school climate and environmental science instructional materials, with several speakers urging TEA and the board to require changes to publisher content.
Retired engineers, scientists and local residents — including Marty Cornell, David Peters, Greg Wright and Michael Zeitlin — told board members that materials from publishers used in Texas classrooms, specifically STEMScopes, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH/McGraw‑Hill), and other vendor products, contained misleading or incorrect claims about the causes of modern warming, the role of water vapor versus carbon dioxide, ocean acidification experiments and the…
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