The National Environmental Education
Advancement Project's
Survey of Environmental Education
in the United States
In the fall of 1995, the National Environmental Education Advancement Project (NEEAP)
surveyed 253 state environmental education (EE) leaders to determine the status of state
level EE programs in each of the fifty states. Based on a model of a comprehensive state
level EE program, each state was asked to report the status of EE in their state in terms
of each of the following components:
- EE Master Plan
- State By-law or Requirement for K-12 EE Instruction
- Coordinated Statewide Teacher Inservice Training in EE
- Required EE Training prior to Teacher Certification or Licensing
- State EE Curriculum Guide
- State EE Learner Objectives
- State Supported EE Grants Program
- State Assessment Program that includes EE
- State EE Board/Advisory Council
- State EE Office
- State Level EE Centers and/or Regional Offices
- Interagency State EE Committee
- State EE Association
- Computerized Networking System for EE Materials and Services
- Funding Sources for EE
- EE Trust Fund
The results of the survey can be found on the following pages
- Component Breakdown: A report on each of the 16 components of
a comprehensive environmental education program. Each component is broken down by state
and definition.
- State Profiles: Alabama-Montana or Nebraska-Wyoming:
A state-by-state summary of each of the 50 states.
- Methodology: Details on how the survey was conducted.
- College and University Programs for Teacher Preservice or
Inservice Training: A listing of colleges and universities which offer environmental
education within preservice teacher training and/or inservice opportunities in
environmental education. (Section C of the survey)
- College and University Programs in Environmental Education at the Graduate
and Undergraduate Level. (Section C of the survey)
- Nonformal Environmental Education: Information about
coordination between formal and nonformal EE and available listings of nonformal programs
for each state
"A Survey of the Status of State-Level
Environmental Education in the United States" written
by Michelle Kirk, Richard Wilke, and Abby Ruskey, appears in the Fall 1997 Journal of
Environmental Education (Volume # 29 #1, pp. 9-16) . This article summarizes the
findings of the 1995 survey conducted by NEEAP and funded by the National Wildlife
Federation.. The volume with this article may be ordered from the publisher by calling
1-800-365-9753.