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March 2000 | Volume 57 | Number 6

Healthy Bodies, Minds, and Buildings

Feature Articles

Perspectives / Prescriptions for Health

Marge Scherer

Common Cause: School Health and School Reform

Charles Deutsch

Is there hope for a happy marriage between school health and school reform?

The Mind-Body-Building Equation

Joy Dryfoos

No one way equals the right way to shape a full-service school.

A Community School

Sue Maguire

From dental care to child care, a Vermont school responds to the needs of families.

Partnerships to Keep Students Healthy

Eva Marx and Daphne Northrop

Coordinated health programs require combining a wide range of school support services.

Creative Collaborations with Health Providers

Susan Frelick Wooley, Richard M. Eberst and Beverly J. Bradley

Different players can help schools target short- and long-term goals.

Finding the Funds for Health Resources

Jenny Osorio, Eva Marx and Louise Bauer

How to identify current and future funding sources.

The New Physical Education

Leslie T. Lambert

Out with bench-sitting and in with bench-pressing—improving fitness programs for kids.

Health and Wellness After School

Grace C. Kolbe and Beverly Berkin

Two programs offer students opportunities to discuss concerns—from teen pregnancy to AIDS.

Tackling Teens' No. 1 Problem

Jan Adair

Project ALERT teaches refusal skills to curtail students' tobacco and alcohol use.

Managing Asthma at School

Julie A. Madden

Not just about using medicine, controlling this chronic disease also requires limiting triggers in the environment.

The Science of Nutrition

Pat Wolfe, Mary Anne Burkman and Katharina Streng

The authors describe 10 red flags of junk science and recommend how a school can support good nutrition.

Water, Water Everywhere

John A. Fahey

The simple substance water is important to brain functioning.

Shaping Health Policies

Pamela M. Grebow, Brenda Z. Greene, Jennifer Harvey and Carmen J. Head

Steps to ensure that health plans survive in the face of budget cuts and personnel changes.

Making Cyberspace Safe for Children

Joyce Pittman and Brian McLaughlin

When Web sites entice kids to supply personal information, the online experience can be dangerous.

A Checklist for Safe Schools

Pam Schiffbauer

From communicating with the neighbors to taking walks around the building, administrators can do much to create safe environments for learning.

Failing at Kindness: Why Fear of Violence Endangers Children

Daniel Perlstein

Schools cannot promote tolerance through a policy of zero tolerance.

School Bereavement

Elaine Winter

Suggestions for helping the school community cope with grief and tragedy.

Departments

Review / Books of the Century

Craig Kridel

Research Link / Healthy Buildings, Successful Students

John H. Holloway

Web Wonders

Betsy Lindeman

Letters

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