Local Wellness Policies
July 1, 2009 | Evaluation
Assessing School District Strategies for Improving Children's Health 2006–07 and 2007–08.
Schools Pre-K Through 12
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Local School Wellness Policies
June 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
How Are Schools Implementing the Congressional Mandate?
How Schools Can Raise Money Without Unhealthy Vending Contracts and Fundraisers
October 17, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Center for Science in the Public Interest analyzed the economic impact of school vending machine contracts and identified alternative fund-raising methods that do not compromise student health.
Awards for Heroes Who Create Healthy Schools
October 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
The National Dairy Council developed the Healthy School Heroes Awards, through which 27 individuals received public recognition for exemplary work to create health-promoting schools in 2002.
Schools and Obesity Prevention
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article provides an overview of efforts in schools to address childhood obesity. Schools have begun to strengthen their food and physical activity policies, but stronger policies are needed to limit children's exposure to unhealthy foods and to increase their physical activity.
Preventing Childhood Obesity
January 1, 2009 | Toolkit
The guide offers the latest policy updates and recommendations about how to promote physical education and activity and healthy eating policies in schools.
Recess Rules
September 1, 2007 | Report
This report analyzes several sources of data to identify opportunities for increasing children's physical activity. The report also explores one model for addressing children's health through play and raises questions about the funding disparities that exist in the universe of physical activity.
Connecting With Care in Low-Income Boston Neighborhoods
November 19, 2012 | Program Result Report
The Connecting With Care project of the Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention demonstrated that it was economically feasible to bring full-time, mental-health clinicians to schools in the low-income Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester and Roxbury.
Policy Briefing: Better Recess, Better Learning
Issue Brief/Report/Infographic
A February 27, 2013, Capitol Hill briefing on how an active, inclusive recess can help students return to the classroom ready to learn.
Can Tag Help Schools Teach?
March 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Strengthening recess transforms the school climate, paving the way for less bullying and more focus on learning, according to new evaluation findings from Mathematica Policy Research and Stanford University.