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Summers, William – Language Arts, 2013
Will Summers has been farming since 2007 when he interned for a small community-supported agriculture (CSA) farm in Austin, Texas. His agricultural experience since then has primarily been with nonprofit organizations where he has cultivated vegetables, kept chickens, milked goats, and introduced young people to the wonders of farming and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Food, Gardening, Health Promotion
Robert, Sarah A., Ed.; Weaver-Hightower, Marcus B., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
The essays in "School Food Politics" explore the intersections of food and politics on all six of the inhabited continents of the world. Including electoral fights over universally free school meals in Korea, nutritional reforms to school dinners in England and canteens in Australia, teachers' and doctors' work on school feeding in…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, School Activities, Lunch Programs, Ecology
Hagert, Celia – Center for Public Policy Priorities, 2008
For more than 20 years, the Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP) has been a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3) research organization committed to improving public policies and private practices to better the economic and social conditions of low- and moderate-income Texans. CPPP believes the upcoming reauthorization of the child nutrition…
Descriptors: Children, Eating Habits, Breakfast Programs, Hunger
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Zanger, Mark – Education Next, 2005
In this article, the author reviews school lunches around Boston. He discusses a significant fact about school lunches today, which is the "free" and "reduced" lunch program. The most promising developments he saw came from two opposite directions: (1) from food conglomerates reformulating snack foods to eliminate transfats,…
Descriptors: Food, Food Service, Lunch Programs, Nutrition