Students Least Informed About Environmental Science Are Most Optimistic

Will problems associated with environmental issues improve in the next two decades? According to an analysis of student performance on PISA 2006 -- an international assessment of 15-year-olds -- students who are the best informed about environmental science and the geosciences are also the most realistic about the environmental challenges facing the world in the next 20 years. Meanwhile, students who are least informed in these areas are the most wildly optimistic that things will improve.

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