Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

• Schools Can Be Effective In Reversing the Trend and Eliminating the Problem of Childhood Obesity

  Friday, November 4th, 2011

  “The cafeteria here serves fresh fruit and veggies, low-fat or no-fat milk, no sodas or fried foods and no gooey desserts. There are no sweets on kids’ birthdays and food is never used as a reward. Teachers wear pedometers and parents have to sign a contract committing to the school’s healthy approach.”

• Repeating Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for health-care equity

  Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

  Two generations ago, when Dr. King issued a stinging indictment of the inequalities of the health of Americans, I had no idea how much his words would affect my life, or all of our lives. He said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane.”

• OneWorld Progressive Institute, Inc Provides Hands-On Demonstration of Effective Parents and Teachers Team-Building

  Sunday, October 9th, 2011

  “The educational environment has a cognitive and an affective side. It has an academic and an emotional side. Parents and teachers must come together as a team to work on all of these for the benefit of students and for the future of America.” “Parents do not have to be able to do 8th Grade Math to help a child. Parent can turn off the TV, provide support, get the child the help he/she needs, and convey the importance and value of education.”

  Marc Palmieri, Retired Principal, NHPS & Moderator of OneWorld, Inc “21st Century Conversations” TV program on Parent & Teacher Team-Building

• School-Based Health Clinics Provide Primary Health Care to Children & Families

  Thursday, October 6th, 2011

  “School-Based Health Clinics in many Connecticut schools provide primary health care to children throughout the 12-14 years of public education. Healthy Children make better learners. Be sure to sign your child up for health care at the beginning of the school year.”

• Domestic Violence Is a Growing Scourge In Our Society –

  Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

  “Domestic Violence can take the form of threats, verbal abuse such as taunting, telling women and children they are fat, ugly, unseemly; blaming them for things over which they have no control. It is an escalating pattern of coercive behavior that includes physical, sexual, and psychological assaults against a current or former intimate partner or against children.”