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Direct linkMacridis, Soultana; García Bengoechea, Enrique – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: Declines in physical activity (PA) in children and youth have contributed to increases in childhood overweight and obesity. The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program was developed to promote school active transportation (AT) and reverse the trend. Methods: Adopting concepts of a realist approach, this article seeks to understand…
Descriptors: Safety, Best Practices, Physical Activity Level, Obesity
Download full textMatthews, Hannah; Schulman, Karen; Vogtman, Julie; Johnson-Staub, Christine; Blank, Helen – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2015
In November 2014, with broad bipartisan support, Congress reauthorized CCDBG [Child Care and Development Block Grant] (the major federal child care program) for the first time since 1996. The new law strengthens CCDBG's dual role as a major early childhood education program and a work support for low-income families. This implementation guide is…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Federal Programs, Program Implementation, Child Care
Scott, George A. – US Government Accountability Office, 2012
The School Improvement Grant (SIG) program funds reforms in low performing schools. Congress provided $3.5 billion for SIG in fiscal year 2009, and a total of about $1.6 billion was appropriated in fiscal years 2010-2012. SIG requirements changed significantly in 2010. Many schools receiving SIG funds must now use the funding for specific…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Grants, Federal Programs, Program Implementation
Bozzo, Robert – 1982
A final report is given of an assessment and comparison series which evaluated the national fitness and sport promotion systems in the United States, Australia, and Canada. The framework of the three country-specific assessments treated national level policies and programs first, followed by state or provincial activities. At each stage, physical…
Descriptors: Athletics, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems, Federal State Relationship
Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC. National Science and Technology Council. – 1999
This document is the implementation plan for the Information Technology for the 21st Century (IT[squared]) initiative. With this initiative, the Federal Government is making an important re-commitment to fundamental research in information technology. The initiative proposes $366 million in increased investments in computing, information, and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Institute for Soviet-American Relations, Washington, DC. – 1984
The purpose of this handbook is to encourage exchange visits between citizens of the United States and the USSR. Person-to-person encounters remain the most effective means of bringing home the reality that people from diverse cultures do share similar needs, emotions, and aspirations. The information provided is intended for individuals and…
Descriptors: Cultural Exchange, Exchange Programs, Financial Support, Guidelines
Rodamar, Daniele; Rodamar, Jeffery W. – 1990
Although education technologies have had a substantial impact on curricula, teaching, and learning, the overall impact on education has been limited. Evaluative studies of technology in the classroom in California, England, and France, have shown that computers and other new education technologies were embraced initially as viable educational…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Change, Educational Technology, Federal Legislation
Hoyt, Kenneth B. – 1981
This monogrpah examines the first 10 years and probable future of the career education movement in the United States. The first part outlines changes that have occurred in the 1970s in the following areas: definition of career education, defining skills to be delivered by career education efforts, career education/vocational education…
Descriptors: Career Education, Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Definitions
Entrepreneurship Inst., Columbus, OH. – 1983
A conference dealing with new enterprise and economic development initiatives today, Project NEED IT was designed to familiarize decision makers at all levels of the public, private, and educational sectors with the best new enterprise development projects being carried out in the United States today. During the conference, a series of papers and…
Descriptors: Basic Business Education, Budgeting, Business Administration, Business Responsibility
Wallace, Susan W.; Myer, Donna Foster – 1983
This instructor's resource guide, one in a series of products from a project to develop an associate degree program for paraprofessional rural family health promoters, deals with teaching a course in health care organization and issues. Covered in the first section of the guide are the role of health care organization and health issues in rural…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Associate Degrees, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques
Zepeda, Marlene; Varela, Frances; Morales, Alex – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2004
In 2003, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) released a "Strategic Plan for Early Childhood Health." In recognition of the critical role states play in the development of early childhood initiatives and of the unique contributions that state Title V programs can make to these initiatives, the Bureau operationalized their…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Child Health, Young Children, Strategic Planning
Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). – 2000
This document contains a total of 57 welcoming speeches, theme addresses, seminar and workshop papers, and poster sessions that were presented at a conference on technological education and national development. The papers explore the ways technology and technological advances have both necessitated and enabled changes in the way education is…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Articulation (Education)
