BACKGROUND School health education can effectively help reduce the prevalence of health-risk behaviors among students and have a positive influence on students' academic performance. This article describes the characteristics of school health education policies and programs in the United States at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. METHODS The Centers for Disease Control and P...

Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin examine how salary and working conditions affect the quality of instruction in the classroom. The wages of teachers relative to those of other college graduates have fallen steadily since 1940. Today, average wages differ little, however, between urban and suburban districts. In some metropolitan areas urban districts pay more, while in others, suburban districts...

BACKGROUND Among the issues that determine the performance of a child at school is health. In recognition of this, the Uganda government has embarked on a school health program for the success of universal primary education. Although dental health is an important component of school health there is little information on it. OBJECTIVE This study aimed at collecting information on dental health...

This study analyzes pre-Katrina variation in aggregate student performance and children's blood lead (BPb) in 117 elementary school districts in metropolitan New Orleans. Fourth grade student achievement on Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) tests were analyzed as a function of BPb for children 1-6 years old within school districts, controlling for student-teacher ratios, percent o...

State requirements that high school graduates pass exit exams were the leading edge of the movement towards standards-based reform and continue to be adopted and refined by states today. In this study, we present new empirical evidence on how exit exams influenced educational attainment and labor market experiences using data from the 2000 Census and the National Center for Education Statistics...

We examine whether the Michigan school funding reform of 1994 had general equilibrium effects in the Detroit metropolitan area. The reform had two components: centralization of school funding at the state level, with increases for low-revenue districts and revenue caps for highrevenue districts, and property tax reduction. We present a stylized equilibrium model whose main insight is that since...

Purpose: This article examines the relationship between educational and residential segregation in three school districts with differing approaches to student assignment. Racial income within is often only examined at level, even as patterns are related attendance zone depending on integration policies aimed decoupling these relationships. Research Method/Approach: Using an innovative data set,...

For the past three decades, plaintiffs in hundreds of state and federal court lawsuits have challenged state laws that fund public schools with the local property tax. As socioeconomic segregation remains at extremely high levels across the country, reliance on a tax that is based on the wealth of the property within a school district’s territory produces huge inequality in revenues. As the res...

BACKGROUND Concerns about the diets of school-aged children and new nutrition recommendations for the US population have increased interest in the nutritional quality of meals available through the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program. OBJECTIVE This article updates national estimates of the food energy and nutrient content of school meals and compares these estimates to...

During the past ~o years, fiscal troubles in New England have severely limited state governments’ ability to increase funding for elementary and secondary schooling. Despite growing concerns about the quality of public education, two states, Connecticut and New Hampshire, cut inflation-adjusted K-12 spending in Fiscal Year 1992 (FY92) and FY93 (Chart 1). The other four cut spending in one of th...