From Newsday:
Experts: Let your kids play
by Michael Amon
michael.amon@newsday.com
…Friedman announced that Long Island will be a test site for a new kind of playground, one that uses nature to engage children’s imagination instead of monkey bars, swings and slides.
Dimensions Educational Research Foundation, a Nebraska-based youth research institution, will provide funding to train landscape architects and teachers in creating the playgrounds. The funding to build such playgrounds will have to come from county, state or other private sources, Friedman said.
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