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# USDA Spends $900,000 to Teach MetaThinking About Water to Children

Free Beacon, 2015, Free Beacon — Environment & Sustainability

Patterns: [Distinctions](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/distinctions), [Systems](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/systems), [Relationships](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/relationships), [Perspectives](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/perspectives)

## In short

Coverage of the work in Free Beacon.

## What they found (results)

The piece treats teaching children "meta-thinking" about water — through methods including rap and spoken word — as a poor use of federal money, while quoting the project's own account of water thinking as taking perspective on water and seeing the relationships, distinctions, and systems at play.

## What they set out to do (purpose)

A Washington Free Beacon story by Elizabeth Harrington criticizing the USDA's roughly $900,000 grant to ThinkWater as wasteful spending on experimental pedagogy.

These researchers were not testing DSRP. The finding is theirs; the correspondence to DSRP is drawn by this site.

[Source](https://freebeacon.com/issues/usda-spends-900000-to-teach-meta-thinking-about-water-to-children/)