Students learn about the Bay aboard a CBF workboat. Photo by CBF
Staff Maryland Makes a Historical Investment in Environmental
Literacy "This is a momentous day not only for Maryland but for
educators across the country who are watching what Maryland
does, and hoping to increase outdoor learning in their states,"
said Don Baugh, Director of the No Child Left Inside Coalition
(NCLI) and Vice President of Education for CBF. "The reason
environmental education is gaining popularity is simple: it
works. Children learn more, think more, and get healthier." The
day of which he is speaking is June 21, 2011, when Maryland's
board of education voted to require that students get a
"comprehensive, multi-disciplinary environmental education"
before receiving their high school diploma. |Students,
participating here in water-quality testing, learn more, think
more, and get healthier through outside environmental education.
Photo by CBF Staff Maryland has long been a national leader in
providing high–quality, outdoor, envir