Health.com ranks the nation’s healthiest schools based on food and nutrition, fitness and activity, health education, and healthy building materials and practices.

The average American child spends nearly 12,000 hours in school, from kindergarten through 12th grade. That’s a big chunk of time during which he or she can develop good (or bad) health habits.
Happily, schools [...]

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A photo essay from the NRDC on school sprawl.
From the NRDC:
Schools used to be the heart of a neighborhood or community.  Children and not a few teachers could walk to class, or to the playground or ball field on the weekend.  This was relatively easy to do, because the schools were placed within, not [...]

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