Education News
Local
Seatle Post Intelligencer – February 15, 2007
The Wait Is Worth It, Parents Say
By Paul Nyhan
Parents started lining up the night before to enroll their children in Seattle’s Nature Kids Preschool at Discovery Park.
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Commentary
Portland Press Herald – March 11, 2007
There’s more than one way to encourage nature-based learning
By Deirdre Fleming
"Building Strong Naturalist Communities," conference encourages nature-based learning in day-to-day living.
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National | Review
USA TODAY – November 22, 2006
The Children & Nature movement makes front page news in USA Today’s Thanksgiving Day edition.
By Wendy Koch
A back-to-nature movement to reconnect children with the outdoors is burgeoning nationwide. Programs, public and private, are starting or expanding as research shows kids suffer health problems, including obesity, from too much sedentary time indoors with TV and computers.
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Commentary | Resource
EdNews Interview with Cheryl Charles, Ph.D., President, Children and Nature Network
Commentary | Legislation/Policy
Children & Nature Network
Rethinking No Child Left Behind: Let’s put environmental education back in the classroom
By Jim Elder
Despite the evidence that we need schools that will help re-connect our children with nature, environmental education in our nation’s schools is declining for the first time after three decades of steady growth.
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State | Event
Ranchers share educational programs at Quivira Coalition’s “No Child Left Inside” roundtable
By Page Lambert
On January 18, 523 people gathered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to attend the 6th annual Quivira Coalition Conference www.quiviracoalition.org. Quivira, a non-profit organization located in Santa Fe, was founded in 1977 by a rancher and two environmentalists. The group’s mission is to foster ecological, economic and social health on western landscapes through education, innovation, collaboration, and progressive public and private land stewardship.
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C&NN has designated April "Children & Nature Awareness Month." As part of this effort, we invited network members (like you) to list their April programs and share their strategies for building public awareness. Find out what's happening in your community on the C&NN Movement Map.
As part of our ongoing efforts to build the movement, the Children & Nature Network has published two new resources for leaders, organizers, and participants at the local, national, and international levels:
An annotated bibliography of 20 premier studies focusing on the children and nature connection.
