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Three-quarters of children spend less time outside than prison inmates, but a growing movement of forest schools is changing that. These outdoor classrooms are teaching kids to love nature through play and exploration.
In India, a new school wraps its classrooms around a living forest that grows alongside its students. The campus runs on solar power and uses nature itself to cool buildings and clean the air.
Students in Uganda are transforming their school grounds into thriving forests, growing indigenous trees and food while learning to protect their environment. Their success just earned them a spot in a global network fighting landscape destruction.
Plainfield High School and Plainfield Academy for the Arts just earned a global honor held by only 1,100 schools worldwide. Students are now using technology to create podcasts, compose music, and solve real-world problems in ways that prepare them for tomorrow's challenges.
More than 1,000 students at a South African school now eat meals cooked with biogas made from cattle manure instead of firewood. This community-led project is protecting local forests while turning waste into clean energy.
Rescue centers across Borneo are teaching orphaned orangutans the survival skills their murdered mothers never could, preparing them for life back in the wild. These forest schools offer hope for one of the world's most endangered apes.
From a Sikkim school reachable only by a 100-step climb to a Manipur forest where kids learn math by measuring shadows, four unconventional Indian schools are proving education doesn't need walls to work. Students are thriving with 95% attendance, 90% board exam scores, and deep connections to their communities.
A California middle school has been officially recognized as one of the state's top educational institutions for 2026. Castaic Middle School earned the prestigious California Distinguished School award for its exceptional student achievement and campus-wide excellence.
When the federal government ended its 43-year Blue Ribbon Schools program, Minnesota refused to let eight exceptional schools go unrecognized. The state created its own awards to celebrate schools excelling in student achievement and closing gaps between student groups.
Westerfield College just became the first fully African-owned school to open a campus in the United Kingdom. Back home in Lagos, the governor announced 36 new schools coming soon to expand educational access for every child.
Two years after Hurricane Helene devastated Southeast forests, a major replanting effort is creating jobs and restoring thousands of acres. The nonprofit American Forests is hiring orchard managers and reforestation technicians as part of a five-year partnership with the Forest Service.
Young athletes from Hi-Line High School broke three school records at a single track meet Tuesday, with performances that rewrote their school's record books. The breakthrough day showcased years of training paying off for the small-school competitors.
More than 407,000 Florida students are thriving in charter schools that just earned some of the state's highest academic marks. The latest results show charter schools outpacing traditional public schools, with 61% earning an "A" grade compared to 48% statewide.
Three schools in California's Tahoe Truckee Unified School District just earned the state's highest honors for academic excellence and innovative student support. One school's wolf documentary even scored an invitation to an international film festival.
Students in Nuevo Leon are planting native trees on their school campuses as part of Latin America's largest urban reforestation project. The trees drop temperatures by 20 degrees and turn gray schoolyards into thriving green spaces.
After Hurricane Helene damaged 190,000 acres of Pisgah National Forest, a new partnership is tackling the biggest bottleneck in reforestation: getting enough seedlings. The National Forest Foundation and U.S. Forest Service are teaming up to grow the seeds that will restore these damaged landscapes. #
In Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris district, indigenous children learn math with seeds, geometry with leaves, and traditional arts alongside state curriculum. The Vidyodaya School has spent three decades proving that education works best when it honors where students come from.
A high school track star shattered two school records at a single meet, proving that small schools can produce extraordinary talent. Lexie Dinkel's performance earned her athlete of the week honors and inspired her entire community.
A former Google employee is transforming boring school book fairs into enchanted worlds that make kids fall in love with reading. Literati now runs 4,000 magical book fairs a year and just got acquired to expand nationwide.
Harbor Springs High School became only the third public school in 26 years to win Michigan's Division 4 girls soccer championship. Their 2-0 victory over a private school powerhouse proves small town teams can compete at the highest level.
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