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Frances Beinecke: Growing Green Awards: Winners Produce Food that Nourishes People and the Planet

2012-05-16T10:04:00Z

Today, NRDC announces the winners of the 2012 Growing Green Awards. These awards celebrate the farmers, business owners, and bold thinkers who are transforming America's food system.

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Mark Hyman, MD: Sugar Babies: The Rise Of 'Adult Onset' Diabetes In Children

2012-05-12T10:17:47Z

What are you doing in your home, your family, in your schools and communities to end the attack on our children and our nation's future? We have the power to take back our health.

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Districts Look To Debt Collectors, Stricter Policies, For Unpaid Lunches

2012-05-11T13:44:27Z

Americans are likely hearing from debt collectors more in recent years than in the past, but a practice that may become even more common: debt collect...

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Ken Cook: I Call the Vote: A Farm Bill Litmus Test for the Food Movement

2012-05-10T16:57:20Z

Is offering a healthy snack the only idea in the farm bill that should matter to the food movement? Of course not.

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Advocates Fight Fat: 'School Setting Does Not Support Health'

2012-05-09T14:54:00Z

* Nonprofits want greater role for U.S. Education Department * Health needs to be integrated into school policies -groups ...

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Will New Laws Kill Off A Beloved School Tradition?

2012-05-04T14:38:53Z

Is the tradition of school bake sales nearing an end?

At a time when school communities are forced to increase fundraising efforts amid tighter...

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Kim Doyle Wille: How Will We Feed 18 Million Hungry Children When School Lets Out?

2012-05-03T14:00:00Z

Last Thanksgiving, I spent two days documenting hunger at three food pantries. At the first pantry, children in sweaters sweetly asked volunteers if t...

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Barbara Greenberg: Middle School, Bully and What We Should Do Now

2012-04-25T12:50:11Z

Several parts of this documentary made me bristle with fury. I felt both protective of these helpless victims and angry that the adults in charge were mostly dismissive.

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Breakfast In The Classroom Changing Student Performance

2012-04-17T13:57:24Z

This piece comes to us courtesy of New Haven Independent.

In the first month of a new experiment inside a Dixwell school, the number of kids eating...

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Why The Simple School Lunch Burger Patty Has 26 Ingredients

2012-04-02T17:22:49Z

The school burger has gotten more than its share of the spotlight lately as parents set off a media firestorm in a rally to remove the controversial, ...

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Meryl Ain, Ed.D.: March Madness: School Lunch, Pink Slime and National Nutrition Month

2012-03-28T11:26:39Z

National Nutrition Month is designed to focus attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. I wonder how many parents would choose "pink slime."

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Teacher Stole Lunch Money From 2nd Grade Student, Baltimore Mother Claims

2012-03-21T11:13:50Z

The mother of a second-grade student in Baltimore, Md. has filed a lawsuit claiming that her son's teacher at Gwynn Falls Elementary School assaulted ...

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Schools Can Take Pink Slime Off Menu

2012-03-21T09:25:10Z

NORFOLK, Va. - Local school cafeterias are getting a choice when it comes to the meat filler known as pink slime.
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Schools Can Opt Out Of 'Pink Slime'

2012-03-15T14:54:12Z

"Pink slime" might soon have a leaner presence in public schools than many might have initially anticipated.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture an...

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Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Why Won't Jane and Johnny Eat Healthier at School?

2012-03-12T14:41:00Z

Now that the federal government has sought to get schools across the country to make healthier lunches, there's another tough question for us all: Will kids eat them?

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Rep. Earl Blumenauer: Hunger-Free Kids -- What a Great Idea!

2012-03-07T17:18:23Z

It's time for Congress to stop turning their backs on our children's health and to step forward, be more deeply involved, resist the special interests and make children's nutrition a priority.

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Annie Spiegelman: Starwood Hotels and Resorts Donates 2300 Organic Apple Trees to Bay Area Schools

2012-03-06T11:50:41Z

The trees will allow children in the San Francisco Bay Area to have access to local organic heirloom apples every fall, along with the opportunity to teach them about heirloom varieties and the different flavor of each tree.

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Feds Buying 7 Million Pounds Of 'Pink Slime' For School Lunches

2012-03-05T16:58:17Z

Pink slime -- that ammonia-treated meat in a bright Pepto-bismol shade -- may have been rejected by fast food joints like McDonald's, Taco Bell and Bu...

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Dinner At School: More Public Schools Dish Up 3 Meals A Day

2012-02-18T17:29:49Z

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Too often it is after the fact that teachers discover their students are worrying less about math and reading and more about where...

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Student's Homemade Turkey Sandwich Taken For Nuggets Was Teacher's Mistake

2012-02-17T09:01:33Z

RALEIGH, N.C. -- It was a tale of government meddling that outraged radio talk show hosts and a pair of Congress members: A 4-year-old was forced to d...

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Preschooler's Homemade Turkey Sandwich Replaced With Nuggets

2012-02-15T09:47:00Z

A preschool student at West Hoke Elementary School in North Carolina ended up eating three chicken nuggets for lunch two weeks ago -- because a state ...

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Dinner Is Now On The Menu In Nearly 200 California Schools

2012-02-09T11:28:49Z

This story comes to us courtesy of California's EdSource Extra.

You've heard about free school lunches and breakfasts, but how about school suppers...

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Oz Garcia: Schools And Parents Must Work Together To Fight Childhood Obesity

2012-02-08T15:35:59Z

Children need to learn to develop a taste for healthy foods both in and out of the home. Schools cannot be complicit in bombarding their students with poor food choices and undoing a parent's hard work.

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Junk Foods Widely Available At Elementary Schools, Study Shows

2012-02-06T16:20:39Z

CHICAGO -- Junk food remains plentiful at the nation's elementary schools despite widespread efforts to curb childhood obesity, a new study suggests.
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Getting Kids To Eat Vegetables At School: Are Pictures The Answer?

2012-02-01T15:23:29Z

Getting young children to eat their servings of fruits and veggies, particularly in school, has been a long and hard struggle for parents, schools and...

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