The School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and programs at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. This brief reports study results in the area of food safety, covering the following topics: (1) Health Education; (2) Health Services; and (3)…

General features, cleaning care and operating hints are outlined for convection ovens. (RG)

Florida legislators visited schools and sampled typical lunches served. (RA)

Recent Federal legislation permits schools to make surplus commodities available to outside food service management companies. The result is a new, harder look at turning over food service operations to private mass-feeding firms that are beginning to explore the education market. (Author/LR)

Philadelphia has adapted airline-style feeding patterns to provide government-subsidized hot lunches for children living in depressed neighborhoods. (LR)

The "soft-serve" machines dispense a frozen dessert which may be used as a topping or in sodas or cones. (JW)

The subjective nature of assessment focuses attention on the prior perceptions that workplace assessors can bring to formal assessment activities, regarding the competence of workers. This paper draws on a study into workplace learning and assessment practices and the construction of worker identities, which was conducted at three food production…

Privatization of support services has been a method that Michigan school districts have used for several years to lower costs. More than ever before, Michigan school districts are privatizing the three main support services they offer--food, custodial and transportation. The annual survey finds that 48.8 percent of Michigan school districts are…

This study aimed at developing a course based on the level and the needs of second-grade tourism students at a vocational school in Turkey. Two data collection instruments, a needs analysis and an oral interview, were used to reveal students' level of English and their needs. It was found that the average level of English in the classroom is A2…

The main goal of this paper is to document the nature of boarding schools and empirically analyse the difference in nutrition intake and malnutrition status between boarding and non-boarding students in western rural China. By using two data sets on boarding schools and boarding students in Shaanxi Province, a representative province in western…

Using store-level and aggregated Consumer Price Index data, we show that restaurant prices rise in response to minimum wage increases under several sources of identifying variation. We introduce a general model of employment determination that implies minimum wage hikes cause prices to rise in competitive labor markets but potentially fall in…

Article discusses a training program that incorporates two methods of developing social skills in the catering industry. (Author/GB)