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In the News

This is a sampling of articles from around the country.  For state specific news and a complete list of national articles, vist the NCLI Wiki page - Eenclb.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

Most Recent Publications or view 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 

2010 

06.24.2010 - Sentinel: Girl Scout supports NCLI

06.16.2010 - It's only natural: Kids need to be outside

06.07.2010 - NCLI on Montana License Plates

06.07.2010 - June 7-13 is NCLI week in Michigan

06.01.2010 - June is "No Child Left Inside" month in Illinois

05.15.2010 - Field and Stream

05.12.2010 - "Want Healthy Kids? Unplug them..."

05.05.2010 - DE: In Nature, Nurturing a Love for Learning

04.29.2010 - Project Wild Lets Fremont Students Study Outside

04.28.2010 - "Is Your Child Left Inside?" Philadelphia Row Home Magazine

04.12.2010 - USA Today mentions NCLI Earth Day

04.05.2010 - "Knee-high Naturalists"

04.04.2010 - What makes a community 'environmentally literate'?

03.28.2010 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette mentions NCLI

03.24.2010 - Trout Unlimited NCLI Action site

03.23.2010 - Miller-McCune on the No Child Left Inside Act

03.23.2010 - Field & Stream article about NCLI

03.19.2010 - San Francisco Chronicle on NCLI

03.12.2010 - Dayton NCLI Group

03.03.2010 - Environmental Education Push Gains Traction

Jason Mraz Joins Sesame Street to Get Kids Outside

02.25.2010 - CA article mentions NCLI in letter to Mrs. Obama

02.04.2010 - Progress Made on Nature Deficit Disorder But Not Enough

02.02.2010 - Obama to revamp NCLB

02.01.2010 - Bozeman Daily Chronicle Mentions NCLI

01.21.2010 - Albuquerque, NM passes NCLI Resolution

01.18.2010 - Scholastic Magazine mentions NCLI

01.18.2010 - NCLI mentioned in LA news "Green Living"

01.10.2010 - NY Times "Teaching Green..."

2009

12.31.2009 - NCLI is a "Worldly Significant Story" of 2009

12.11.2009 - State Journal-Register of IL mentions NCLI

11.22.2009 - NCLI in Salisburypost.com story

11.17.2009 - NCLI on DailyHiker.com

10.30.2009 - Congress Increases National Park Service Budget for 2010

10.26.2009 - New Nielsen Company Report

10.25.2009 - Philadelphia Inquirer NCLI Op-Ed

10.22.2009 - Wisconsin NCLI

10.13.2009 - NCLI Day for Earth Science Week 

10.06.2009 - The Great Park Pursuit in CT

09.26.2009 - NCLI Day in CO

09.22.2009 - Hawai'i Island School Gardens for NCLI

08.23.2009 - Baltimore Examiner says "Children Need Nature"

08.18.2009 - Mother Nature Network story about NCLI

08.18.2009 - Plugged into Nature, Wired to World

08.10.2009 - Senator Reed's Support Letter in NYT

08.03.2009 - Lack of Vitamin D in children "Shocking"

08.01.2009 - The New York Times - How To Lick A Slug

07.24.2009 - The Emporia Gazette - Educating the Green Generation

07.24.2009 - Educating the Green Generation

07.23.2009 - Letter from the Coalition to Sen. Reid and Chairman Boxer

07.15.2009 - Colorado Issues a Kids' Outdoor Bill of Rights

04.14.2009 - NWF "Connecting Today's Kids with Nature" Policy Action Guide

04.13.2009 - EPA Study

04.01.2009 - The Wichita Eagle - Report Calls on Society to Nudge Kids Outside

03.18.2009 - Congress Aims to Combat 'Nature-Deficit Disorder'

2008

11.13.2008 - Baltimore Sun OpEd by Barbara Hall

09.30.2008 - Education Week OpEd by Karen Harris

House of Representatives Approves No Child Left Inside Act of 2008
09.19.2008 - Summary of the best media clips (Adobe pdf)

08.11.2008 - Improved Health from the Natural Environment, Where's the Evidence

08.10.2008 - Associated Press: Educators Push for 'NCLI' Funding

08.09.2008 - Associated Press article about NCLI

08.01.2008 - Environmental Education Gets a Green Light (USA Today)

07.01.2008 - NWF EnviroACTION

06.26.2008 - US Bill Proposes Funding for Outdoor Education

05.19.2008 - Schools Can't Spare Time or Dimes for Field Trips

05.01.2008 - NCLI Coalition E-News

04.23.2008 - O'Malley, Sarbanes Take Steps to Raise New 'Green' Generation

04.23.2008 - Law Proposes No Child Left Inside: WAMU radio broadcast

03.17.2008 - Inside the Capitol, The Great Outdoors

03.07.2008 - NACO Resolution

Richard Louv, author of the book Last Child in the Woods
03.03.2008 - Battling Nature Deficit Disorder: Interview with R. Louv

02.06.2008 - NPR: Americans Spending Less Time in Nature

02.05.2008 - MSNBC Video: Housebound

02.05.2008 - Conservation Science: Do People Still Care About Nature?

02.01.2008 - A Closer Look at Changes for Specific Subjects, Year 5 of NCLB

01.28.2008 - NCLI Would Be Good News for Env. Education

01.02.2008 - Schools Fail for Not Teaching Environmental Lessons

01.01.2008 - Classrooms Are Going Green - Scholastic News

Executive Director of the North American Association for Environmental Education, Brian Day, was interviewed by Grist, an online environmental news and commentary publication.  Click here to view his comments on the most recent No Child Left Inside developments. 

 

2007

12.31.2007 - Instructor Magazine: Go Team Green!

12.31.2007 - Nature Nutures Learning

11.24.2007 - Adults Seek to Restore Bond Between Kids and Nature

11.21.2007 - How Well Do You Know the Place Where You Live?

11.18.2007 - Mother Nature: Raising Healthier Kids (USA Today)

11.10.2007 - Baltimore Sun Letter to the Editor: by Joan Johnson

11.05.2007 - Detroit Free Press: Teach Kids About the Great Outdoors

10.29.2007- Radio Show: 'New Education Bill Aims for No Child Left InsideSM'

10.24.2007 -  Environmental and Education Leaders Call on Congress to Pass the No Child Left Inside Act to Improve EE

10.22.2007 - Leave No Child Inside

10.20.2007 - Taking Classrooms Outside

10.14.2007 - Why are people losing interest in Acadia and other parks?

10.13.2007 - Malone Telegram, Letter to the Editor

10.11.2007 - Students Trade Blackboards for Greener Pastures

10.04.2007 - Environmental Education Gets Support in Congress

09.23.2007 - Current Generation

09.13.2007 - Leaving No Child, or Adult, Inside

08.24.2007 - Back to School, Back to the Great Outdoors

08.09.2007 - Resisting Nature-Deficit Disorder

08.02.2007 - Beebe: Arkansas Should Be Leader in EE

07.24.2007 - Connecting Kids, Nature

07.21.2007 - Natural Education

07.22.2007 - Getting an Education as Big as All Outdoors

07.19.2007 - Giving Children an Outdoor Education

07.17.2007 - Education Week - NCLB: Act II

07.17.2007 - Congressman Wants Kids Out of Classroom, Into Nature

07.16.2007 - Lawmaker: Teach Kids About Environment

07.11.2007 - No Ecosystem Left Behind

06.19.2007 - Getting Lost in the Great Indoors

06.16.2007 - Add Environmental Education

05.27.2007 - State Program Gets Kids Moo-ving

05.26.2007 - An Unplugged Experience at Botanical Garden

05.21.2007 - Joint Resources Panel Asks, 'Where Are the Kids?'

05.17.2007 - Are Kids Suffering from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'?

05.24.2007 - Reconnecting Kids and the Outdoors

05.22.2007 - Forest Service Aims to Close Nature-Deficit Gap by Getting Kids out into the Woods

04.30.2007 - Environmental Science Marginalized by Federal Act, Teachers say

04.26.2007 - Outdoors: the New Place to Learn

04.16.2007 - Leadership and the Environment

04.11.2007 - Wharton: We're Losing Touch with Nature

04.02.2007 - Gov. Granholm Proclaims April 20 As No Child Left InsideSM Day

03.28.2007 - An Environmental Mission: Club at Oakland Mills High Seeks to Raise Community Awareness

02.18.2007 - Microscopes vs. Video Games

02.10.2007 - No Child Left InsideSM; Environmental Awareness

01.14.2007 - Battling a Nature Deficit
 

 

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11.22.2006 - Nature Program's Goal: No Child Left Inside

11.21.2006 - Groups Aim to "Plant Seeds" with Kids

11.05.2006 - Nurture of Nature; Hectic Lives, Technology Deprive Kids of Outdoor Wonders

06.29.2006 - Environmental Education Lacking in U.S. Finds New Study

06.18.2006 - Green School Program Cultivates Learning

04-12-2006 - The Changing Culture of Childhood

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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04.28.2005 - Growing Up Denatured