Environmental Education Massachusetts. 1972 Assessment with Recommendations.

Overview & Synopsis

This document presents the first report of the Task Force on Environmental Education in Massachusetts. The Task Force was charged with 3 priorities during its first year of operation: (1) to assess all aspects of environmental education programs currently in progress at all educational levels within the Commonwealth; (2) to determine the environmental education needs within the Commonwealth and to establish priorities within those needs; and (3) to present a proposal for an on-going state planning system for environmental education. The prime recommendation of the Task Force is that a quasi-public organization be immediately established to catalyze and focus the private and public environmental education effort in the Commonwealth. Specifically, a public trust organization named Trust for Environmental Education (TRUST-EE) is recommended. As of publication date of this report, the legal processes of establishing TRUST-EE had already begun. Other recommendations that would stem from the organization of TRUST-EE include elementary and secondary school objectives; higher education objectives; public non-school education objectives; and governmental agencies and environmental education objectives. (HS)