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Storer, John H.; Frate, Dennis A. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1990
Defining hunger on the basis of poverty or other nonphysiological criteria is misleading. With nutritional data used by human-service agencies, suggests programs with such conception of hunger hurt the efforts at nutritional change. Uses central Mississippi as an example to propose objective nutritional definition and assessment. (TES)
Descriptors: Definitions, Hunger, Nutrition, Poverty
Le Menestrel, Suzanne Miller; Tout, Kathryn; McGroder, Sharon M.; Zaslow, Martha; Moore, Kristin – 1999
The Project on State-Level Child Outcomes was initiated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to examine the effects on children of waiver policies related to state welfare reform efforts prior to the passage of federal welfare reform legislation. This report details the project's examination of child well-being in the context of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Welfare, Children, Day Care
Camp, William G.; Jackson, Renee S.; Buser, Bryan R.; Baldwin, Eliza T. – 2000
The impact of participation in a vocational student organization (VSO) on student achievement was examined. First, an exhaustive review of the recent literature on VSOs was conducted. In addition, a survey aimed at state directors of VSOs was developed and pilot tested on a purposefully-selected sample of 25 state directors of VSOs. A response…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Benefits, Educational Research