Nebraska School Activity Association
Increasing Physical Activity: A Report on Recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services
Regular physical activity is associated with enhanced health and reduced risk for all-cause mortality ( 1--4 ). Beyond the effects on mortality, physical activity has multiple health benefits, including reducing the risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, selected cancers, and musculoskeletal conditions ( 5 ). Even with all the known benefits of regular physical activity, only 25% of adults in the United States report engaging in recommended physical activity levels (i.e., either 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activity on > 5 days/week or 20 minutes of vigorous-intensity physical activity on > 3 days/week); 29% report no leisure-time regular physical activity ( 6 ) ; and only 27% of students in grades 9--12 engage in moderate-intensity physical activity ( 7 ). ... [Read More]
National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services
NHTSA press release notes that Federal law prohibits the sale or lease of new 12 or 15 passenger vans for school related transportation of k thru 12 students. For additional information on the press releases from: ... [Read More]
Astronaut Bio: Clayton C. Anderson 1/05
Anderson most recently served as the lead for the Enhanced Caution and Warning (ECW) System development effort within the Space Shuttle Cockpit Avionics Upgrade (CAU) Project. Previously, he was the Crew Support Astronaut for the Expedition 4 International Space Station Crew, providing ground support to the crew on technical issues in addition to supporting their families. Anderson also served as a Space Station Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) for Station missions and as the Astronaut Office crew representative for the Station's electrical power system. In November of 2002, Anderson completed training in the Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Skills program. Clay Anderson is currently assigned as the Flight Engineer for an upcoming International Space Station Long Duration Expedition in 2006. ... [Read More]
BHPR -
Custom data tabulations by national professional trade associations and others (i.e., Quality Resource Systems, Inc.; Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health) with access to national data bases; ... According to state officials, many of the state’s efforts begun in the late 1980s to improve physician supply and address maldistribution have made a difference. However, concerns persist as a recent survey of rural Nebraska physicians finds close to a third of respondents plan to leave their practice within ten years. Importantly, two-thirds of the respondents attended a rural high school in the state and nearly 80 percent attended one of the state’s two medical schools. The proportion of state’s urban physicians doing so, however, is much less. ... [Read More]
Interior Activity & Accomplishments
President Bush and Secretary Norton are committed to ensuring that the 48,000 Indian students attending elementary and secondary schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs receive quality educational opportunities and have the tools for educational achievement. The Department convened consultation and negotiated rulemaking sessions across the Nation to help initiate the President's "No Child Left Behind" initiative at Indian schools. The historic education reform law brings BIA-funded schools the four pillars of the President's education reform plan: accountability and testing, flexibility and local control, funding for what works and expanded parental options for children attending failing schools. ... [Read More]
Interior Activity & Accomplishments
Education: President Bush and Secretary Norton are committed to ensuring that the 48,000 Indian students attending elementary and secondary schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs receive quality educational opportunities and have the tools for educational achievement. The Department convened consultation and negotiated rulemaking sessions across the Nation to help initiate the President's "No Child Left Behind" initiative at Indian schools. The historic education reform law brings BIA-funded schools the four pillars of the President's education reform plan: accountability and testing, flexibility and local control, funding for what works and expanded parental options for children attending failing schools. ... [Read More]
Nebraska HHS System: Cardiovascular Health Program: Project Drink Milk
Two schools were recruited to pilot this project in 2002. Over the next two years, milk machines were implemented into eleven additional schools (six in 2003 and five in 2004). These eleven schools were chosen through an application process. Examples of the application and contract are located below and may be downloaded . Each school awarded in 2003 committed to conduct four sets of student surveys during the three-year contract period. This information will be compiled as an intensive evaluation to study the correlation between milk vending machines in schools and milk consumption in Nebraska students. Those schools awarded funds in 2004 have committed to conduct three sets of administrator/coordinator surveys during the three-year contract period. This information will be utilized to determine the perceived cost-effectiveness and efficiency of the milk vending machines in schools by those coordinating efforts for Project Drink Milk. ... [Read More]
Archived: Partners' Activity Kit 1996-97 -- The AMERICA GOES BACK TO SCHOOL: Get Involved! Team
Rabbi Bruce Aft, Congregation Adat Reyim; Leslie Collins, National Engineers Week; Susan Hlesciak Hall, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development; Coleman Harris, Mount Vernon High School PTSA; John J. Mahlmann, Music Educators National Conference; June Million, National Association of Elementary School Principals; Gwendolyn J. Cooke, National Association of Secondary School Principals; Maggie Holmes, National Head Start Association ... Nancy Dickson Stiles, Katy Elementary School; David Guel, Travis Middle School; Charles Patterson, Killeen Independent School District; Pat Wright, Ft. Worth Independent School District; Emmie West, ECS Learning Systems; Evelyn Farmer, Fredericksburg Independent School District; Robert de Kanter, Robert E. Lee High School; Richard R. Arduengo, Houston Public Library ... [Read More]
Nebraska HHS System: Cardiovascular Health Program: ARF Program
ARF encourages youth, families, schools, and communities to work together utilizing any program or type of activity that works best in their individual setting to accumulate activity time. Youth may record all activity accumulated throughout a day. For example, Sally's Friday Schedule: walk to school (10 minutes), play soccer at recess (20 minutes), "active" time during PE (15 minutes), walk home from school (10 minutes), shoot hoops with family before dinner (30 minutes) = 85 minutes! ... [Read More]
Nebraska HHS System: Cardiovascular Health Program: Resources and Links
American Stroke Association ... http://www.strokeassociation.org ... National Association for Health and Fitness ... [Read More]
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