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BREAKING: Colorado among the states chosen to get out of No Child Left Behind rules
February 9, 2012 – 2:57 pm | No Comment

Colorado is among the first set of 10 states to receive some flexibility from the requirements of No Child Left Behind, White House officials confirmed to The Denver Post this morning.
Colorado applied for the waiver last year, saying in the application they can better handle holding schools accountable from a state level.
White House officials said [...]

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Green Reading List for Children of All Ages This Earth Day

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Green Reading List for Children of All Ages This Earth Day

Want to instill a healthy pro-environment mentality in your children? Check out this Green Reading List from the National Environmental Education Foundation, which includes a fantastic selection of new and classic books for all ages.

Elementary School:

  • The Berenstain Bears Don’t Pollute (Anymore) by Stan & Jan Berenstain
  • The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
  • Where There Once Was a Wood by Denise Flemming
  • The Giving Tree by Shell Silverstein
  • Where does the garbage go by Paul Showers
  • Pee Wee and the Magical Compost Heap by Larraine Roulston
  • A Day in the Salt Marsh by Kevin Kurtz
  • Where Butterflies Grow by Joann Ryder
  • Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
  • The Dragon and the Unicorn by Lynne Cherry
  • Forests for All by Melanie Richardson Dundy

    Middle School:

  • The Big Book for Our Planet by Jean Craighead George
  • Bird Boy by Elizabeth Starr Hill
  • The Case of the Missing Cutthroats: An Ecological Mystery by Jean Craighead George
  • The Earth is Painted Green: A Garden of Poems about Our Planet by Barbara Brenner
  • How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch
  • Into the Deep Forest with Henry David Thoreau by Jim Murphy

    High School:

  • Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
  • Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
  • Girls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists by Jeannine Atkins
  • Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists by Paul Russell Cartright
  • Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams
  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  • Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource by Marq de Villiers

    To view the full list, please visit: http://www.eeweek.org/resources/green_reading.

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