BACKGROUND Considering the high prevalence of obesity among children attending elementary schools, it is important to know the evolution of body weight when these children reach adolescent. AIM To analyze the changes in nutritional status of children between the first year of elementary school and the first year of high school. MATERIAL AND METHODS A historical cohort of children that were ...

INTRODUCTION Many American children do not meet recommendations for moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Although school-based physical education (PE) provides children with opportunities for MVPA, less than half of PE minutes are typically active. The purpose of this study is to estimate the cost effectiveness of a state "active PE" policy implemented nationally requiring that at lea...

Hillen is one of nine elmhurst memorial Healthcare (emHc) nurses who are contracted with elmhurst community unit School district 205. She is part of emHc’s outside education department, but her office is in the school district building. Hillen is responsible for emerson elementary School, Hawthorne elementary School and Sandburg middle School, along with overseeing half of the district’s K-12 s...

This study examined the longitudinal effects of 2 first-grade universal preventive interventions on academic outcomes (e.g., achievement, special education service use, graduation, postsecondary education) through age 19 in a sample of 678 urban, primarily African American children. The classroom-centered intervention combined the Good Behavior Game (H. H. Barrish, Saunders, & Wolfe, 1969) with...

BACKGROUND This study examined associations between students' physical fitness and physical activity (PA), as well as what specific physical fitness components were more significant correlates to being physically active in different settings for boys and girls. METHODS A total of 265 fifth-grade students with an average age of 11 voluntarily participated in this study. The students' physical ...

INTRODUCTION School physical education (PE) has been identified as a critical public health tool to increase physical activity among youths. We sought to objectively assess compliance with PE quantity mandates and quality recommendations in a large urban California school district. METHODS We collected PE schedules and systematically observed PE lessons (n=154) in 20 elementary, 4 middle, and...

This research project examines the differences between two teaching methods in the teaching of mathematics—active teaching and traditional teaching—in special education classes in standard elementary schools in the Arab sector of Israel. The differences examined are related to the advancement of scholastic achievements in mathematics, both from the aspect of understanding the study materials an...