MOUNT VERNON — The state Legislature decided during its 2025 session not to fund a key grant program for outdoor education. Funding from the Outdoor Learning Grants Program was used to help pay for ...

Nine years ago, when my oldest son was in kindergarten, his 6.5-hour school day included just 15 minutes of outdoor recess. That paltry interval was typical of our Minnesota public-school district.

Paired up middle school students – one of them blindfolded, the other leading the way – stumble through a field, around tangled manzanita and over thick underbrush to find a tree, their tree. In a ...

Each year, more than 10,000 students and families participate in hands-on outdoor science learning at Sierra Nevada Journeys ...

Dr Claire Ramjan called the current state of outdoor learning in Scotland “heart-breaking” and pointed to a range of factors making it hard for schools and individual educators to reverse the trend.