Reality 101: What Students Must Learn About Energy

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Reality 101: What Students Must Learn About Energy
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Higher education is increasingly under attack for what and how students learn. Some of that is political. Some, deserved. “Energy” is now one such political battleground. Environmental studies have swallowed the energy domain, stripping it of realism and producing too many graduates unready for the real world.

Portia Roberts
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Portia Roberts is the policy director for the National Center for Energy Analytics and holds an MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS.
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