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Coal Curriculum Called Unfit for 4th Graders

Three advocacy groups have started a letter-writing campaign asking Scholastic Inc. to stop distributing the fourth-grade curriculum materials that the American Coal Foundation paid the company to develop.

The three groups — Rethinking Schools, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and Friends of the Earth — say that Scholastic’s "United States of Energy" package gives children a one-sided view of coal, failing to mention its negative effects on the environment and human health.

Kyle Good, Scholastic’s vice president for corporate communications, was traveling for much of Wednesday and said she could not comment until she had all the "United States of Energy" materials in hand.

By TAMAR LEWIN

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/education/12coal.html?_r=1&hpw

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