The Route to Health in Education
Max School Bus is the first to integrate the DonorsChoose.org plug-in, which helps to support teachers’ classroom projects.
We’re proud to announce that Max School Bus is the first blog to sign up and feature the DonorsChoose.org plug-in. If you’re not familiar with plug-ins, this is a small application that we integrate to add functionality to [...]
The four-day school week has upsides and downsides. How do we weigh them?
Eco Child’s Play (ECP) brings an authoritative perspective to the recent move toward four-day school weeks, which have largely been the result of high fuel prices.
“As a parent and a teacher, I like this idea in order to give families personal time. [...]
Peter Libby, M.D. takes society and the medical establishment to task on the issue of childhood obesity.
It’s refreshing when physicians criticize the American Academy of Pediatrics, together with Big Pharma, in addressing serious medical issues. Especially when it appears in the pages of The New York Times:
The very discussion of drug treatment to lower cholesterol [...]
Blogs are connecting classrooms in new and exciting ways.
If you believe that the Internet has been great for education, then you’ll appreciate even more what blogs are doing to enrich classroom environments. Though some may have preconceived notions of what blogs are about, set those aside for now. Because blogs are pretty much anything [...]
High school harvests rain water and improves indoor air quality.
The Langston Brown Community Center and High School in Arlington, Virginia, has a LEED Silver rating and has quite a few interesting green features. The enormous water tanks used to store rainwater certainly are the most visible (though the one on the front of the building [...]
Solar Vehicle Goes Around the World: Arriving at Environmental Charter High School
From Green Ambassadors: Louis Palmer, a Swiss solar pioneer and inventor, is completing an ambitious plan to travel around the world in a solar-powered vehicle called the “Solartaxi“. The Solartaxi is arriving at Environmental Charter High School (16315 Grevillea Ave, Lawndale, CA 90260) on [...]
Healthy lunches can turn cafeterias into classrooms, while also influencing how kids and their parents eat at home. Here are four organizations making a difference.
Educational health problems are unique in that there is so much value to be found in the solutions, such that how we address them transcends the actual issues by becoming more [...]
Los Angeles-based nonprofit, The Children’s Nature Institute, introduces Nature to many children for the first time.
Imagine living less than an hour from the Pacific Ocean for the first five to eight years of your life and never seeing it, let alone stepping foot on the beach. Imagine a playground with no trees or vegetation [...]
USA Today reports on the nationwide impact of rising diesel prices on schools. It presents a paradox of sorts, while creating some interesting opportunities.
As we recently reported here and here, the cost of fuel is putting a serious squeeze on school budgets. High gasoline and diesel prices can be a double-edged sword. Or, as Max [...]
This is what happens when we really think about how we’d like to educate our children…and design accordingly.
The Willow School is one of the leading green schools in the U.S., though the qualifier “green” does not imply that it’s any less of a school academically. It can be considered a leading K-8 private school in [...]
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