Healthy Vending Solutions Coming to a School Near You

August 11, 2008

Elizabeth Dehart is striving to eliminate obesity in the classroom; ideablob’s $10,000 prize will help her start a vending company that provides organic snacks to school kids. Advanta Corp. announced today that Elizabeth Dehart of West Jordan, Utah, is the July winner of Ideablob.com’s monthly contest for the best small business idea, as voted on [...]

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Authentic Marketing: Unilever Brand Persil Embraces Play

August 5, 2008

UK-based Persil, a Unilever brand, emphasizes the importance of childhood play. Childhood as we know it is over and children of future generations could enter adulthood lacking vital life and social skills because of a lack of ‘free’ play, according to a study released by Persil. The global report, which marks the launch of Persil’s [...]

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Introducing the DonorsChoose.org Plug-In

July 31, 2008

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 [...]

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Can a Four-Day School Week Work?

July 29, 2008

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 [...]

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Can We Medicate Our Way Out of Obesity?

July 25, 2008

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 [...]

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Education Blogging: Something for Everyone

July 23, 2008

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 [...]

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Virginia High School Takes the LEED

July 21, 2008

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 [...]

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Solartaxi to Make a Stop at Environmental High School

July 18, 2008

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) [...]

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Rethinking School Lunches: Four Organizations Making a Difference

July 18, 2008

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 [...]

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Vital Connections: At-Risk Children and Nature

July 14, 2008

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 [...]

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