There may be some merit to including environmental education in the high-stakes mandatory "No Child Left Behind" requirements. However, from what I have witnessed while doing high-school level observations, a better approach might be to advocate for a saner educational system that encourages true growth and learning rather than cramming for frantic tests in narrow fields at the expense of breadth of education. What I witnessed: in a biology classroom a student raised a hand and asked a deep, involved, meaningful question about genetics. The teacher's curt and hurried response was, "Don't worry about that. You don't need to know that for the test...."
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