Look Up!
Former Television Reporter Jack Borden Promotes Sky Awareness
NPR - When public schools began to cut music education programs for budgetary reasons, the non-profit organization Save the Music fought back, citing the comparatively strong standardized test scores of children who studied music.
Former television reporter Jack Borden uses the same tactic to encourage schools to incorporate more sky awareness into their lesson plans. He cites a 1986 Harvard study in which "sky-aware" students surpassed "non-sky" students in other fields of study, including visual arts, music appreciation and reading and writing.
His organization, For Spacious Skies, has already made its way into more than 50,000 classrooms -- and will reach an even larger audience with Look Up!, the Weather Channel's sky exploration initiative.
Borden cites English philosopher John Moffitt, who said: "To know a thing well we must look at it a long time."
"So it is with the sky," Borden says. "Look at it often and long and you will grow to appreciate it more and more."
Click here to listen to Jack Borden's NPR interview
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/watc/20010909.watc.10.ram
(Sept. 9, 2001)
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