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No Child Left Inside Act of 2007
With attendance at our National Parks dropping significantly while children increasingly choose video games and internet chat forums over the great outdoors it may come as no surprise to Treehuggers everywhere that something needs to be done. That'€™s probably why Congressman John Sarbanes (D-MD) has introduced the No Child Left Inside Act of 2007 (H.R. 3036) to be put inside the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)'€¦ As anyone inside of education can tell you, NCLB has serious drawbacks, just one of which may be that it'€™s requirements are encouraging teachers and schools to move away from engaging kids outdoors and leaving them far behind when it comes to ...
Source: TreeHugger