Curriculum
Opinion: To become healthier, more sustainable population, we must encourage a shift from ubiquitous fast food to craft of cooking and associated thrift
By Mark Bittman
The New York Times 2011-09-27
Opinion: Convenience, addiction-like responses to hyperprocessed items have drowned out home cooking; we can counter by educating children and tearing down the food carnival
By Mark Bittman
The New York Times 2011-09-24
Opinion: Reviving home ec, and its premises - that producing good, nutritious food is profoundly important, that it takes study and practice - could fight diet-related disease
By Helen Zoe Veit
The New York Times 2011-09-05
"Congress is fighting to keep pizza and French fries on the school menus when we have an obesity problem nationally."
School Gardens
Farmscape, with its raised beds planter system and plant-it, tend-it package for private homes, adapted for schools; vegetable sales to teachers help pay for farmer visits
By Emily Green
Los Angeles Times 2011-03-11
In New Orleans, educational venture and commercial urban farm flourishes in wrecked neighborhood; students grow $2,500 of produce weekly which they sell at farmers' market, restaurants
By Charles Wilson
The New York Times 2011-01-15
Lame duck Congress may take up Child Nutrition Act sponsored by outgoing Senator Blanche Lincoln; at issue is $2.2 billion in funding for bill from food stamps cuts
By Alyson Klein
Education Week 2010-11-01
School Meals & Snacks
Massachusetts farmer makes farm-to-school movement a money-maker by buying from 30 other growers, lightly processing squashes and selling to UMass, public schools, others
By Michael Prager
The Boston Globe 2011-11-03
Opinion: Children's needs ignored as Senate protects potato farmers who complained over proposed anti-obesity rules limiting high-carb foods for school meals
By Valerie Strauss
The Washington Post 2011-10-20
Opinion: New school nutrition law meant to improve food, but final rules aren't due until December 2013, and House is looking to cut funding of extra 6 cents per meal
By Marion Nestle
San Francisco Chronicle 2011-09-04