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Comparison of Student BMI before and after the National School Lunch Program Nutritional Changes of 2012
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Ritenour, Cris Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined differences in grade school students' BMI percentiles before and after the "Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act" of 2012 and factors that may have influenced those differences. Using publically available data from the Pennsylvania Departments of Health and Education, a comparative analysis of BMI percentiles, ethnicity,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Body Composition, Lunch Programs, National Programs
From Policy to Practice: Parent Perceptions of the 2010 Federal School Lunch Mandate
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Golembiewski, Elizabeth H.; Askelson, Natoshia M.; Elchert, Daniel M.; Leicht, Erika A.; Scheidel, Carrie A.; Delger, Patti J. – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2015
Purpose/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate parent awareness and perceptions of changes to the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) implemented as a result of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHKA) of 2010. Methods: An online survey of parents of school age (K-12) children in a Midwestern state was conducted (n = 2,189). The…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, National Programs, Lunch Programs, Federal Legislation
Reauthorization of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement Act. Hearing on Examining the Need for a Nationwide Testing System Focusing on Recommendations To Establish National Student Performance Standards before the Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session (March 7 and June 13, 1991).
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1991
The first of two hearings held in the winter and spring of 1991 to consider the reauthorization of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement focused on the question of national testing. The proposed legislation stipulates that a national test would measure an individual's educational achievement, give the local education agency an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
School-to-Work Implementation Progress: The State Perspective in Early 1996.
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Hershey, Alan; Rosenberg, Linda – 1996
One-hour telephone discussions with state school-to-work (STW) directors provided information on STW state governance, partnership formation and funding, and implementation progress in 27 states. The most obvious difference in structures at the state level for implementing STW was whether STW responsibilities were assigned to a governing entity…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Federal Aid
Job Training Partnership Act: An Analysis.
Capitol Publications, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1982
The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), a bill designed to replace the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), enlarges the role of state governments and private industry in federal job training programs, imposes sanctions based on performance standards, limits stipends and supportive services, creates a new program of retraining for…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Business, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Programs
Workfare States.
Peck, Jamie – 2001
This book discusses the evolution of workfare policies in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Chapter 1 defines the term "workfare" and examines the concepts of transnationalizing workfare and workfarist labor regulation. Chapter 2 establishes workfare's theoretical context and explores the relationship between welfare…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Definitions, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
The German 'Dual System' of Occupational Training: A Much-Replicated but Oft-Failed Transfer.
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Wilson, David N. – 2000
Germany's Dual System, which consists of in-school and in-enterprise components, facilitates entry into 374 recognized technical, white-collar and blue-collar occupations listed in training regulations that are grounded in legislation. The Dual System's origins and development in Germany were examined along with several attempts to replicate the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adoption (Ideas), Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education)