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Download full textJeffers, Myrtis Keels – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1952
By contrast with other education and school service programs, the school lunch is new. Like any other new program, time is required to work out in detail its proper placement in the school organization, its exact functions in relation to the total school program, and the characteristics which tend to make it a part of the educational program, yet…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Laws, State Departments of Education, State Schools
Gebhart, John C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
Malnutrition is a term used to indicate a general condition of less than normal physical and mental vigor. While the causes of malnutrition are many, incorrect or inadequate diet appears all too often as one of the causes. School feeding, which affords not only an opportunity, to supplement the home food supply but also to teach correct food…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nutrition, Eating Habits, Child Health
Hunt, Caroline L. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1909
The subject of the proper feeding of children of school age involves problems which may be said to be the most difficult as well as the most important of all the problems of human nutrition. The child of school age must grow and must also work. In this he differs on the one hand from the infant, whose work is all ahead of him and on the other hand…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Dietetics, Nutrition, Lunch Programs
Amidon, Edna P. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1951
Interest in the school lunch program and nutrition education has been growing throughout the Nation over a period of years, especially since the enactment of the National School Lunch Act in 1945. School administrators, teachers, members of school boards, school lunch managers, parents, and others are asking the Office of Education pertinent…
Descriptors: Educational History, Lunch Programs, Nutrition, Nutrition Instruction
Rogers, James Frederick – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
In the biennium 1926-1928 the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of modern physiology was celebrated. A tercentenary is an exceedingly small fraction of the time since man discovered the use of fire, invented clothes and houses, and began to huddle together under conditions which have rendered knowledge of hygiene imperative to his…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Health Education, Physical Education, Physiology
Ferriss, Emery N. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
The main purpose of the present study is to make an analysis, largely on the basis of statistical material, of the rural high school as to: (1) its internal organization; (2) its cooperative relationship with the community through community organizations; (3) the nature and extent of its extra-classroom activities; and (4) the nature and variety…
Descriptors: School Administration, School Role, Community Organizations, High Schools
