Detroit Schools Receive Fitness Grant
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The city's public school district will use a grant funded through the No Child Left Behind Act to help students become healthier and fight obesity.
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The University of Michigan Health System has received a $44 million donation to build and staff a research center that will take a new approach to finding a cure for juvenile diabetes.
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NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 10 - A short, moderately intense exercise intervention helped third-graders switch to healthier activities such as soccer and swimming instead of watching TV, researchers reported at the
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School district needs to move the building to make way for a new high school. By Jon Zemke / Special to The Detroit News. John M. Galloway / Special to The Detroit News.
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A task force formed by South Carolina's superintendent of education released a report Friday to help school districts craft policies on student nutrition and physical activity that can trim growing numbers of overweight children.
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Free schools teach ordinary people skills they need to start a business.
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By Chris Kelly Special to My Life  Hundreds turned out for the sixth annual Race for Education 5K run and 1-mile family fun run at Cameron-Brown Park sponsored by the Shelby County Education Foundation.
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PITTSBURGH - An expansion of a federal pilot program that provides schools with funding for fruits and vegetables might help students get as enthusiastic about brussels sprouts and broccoli as they are about pizza and ice cream, a U.S. Agriculture Department official said on Thursday...
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Lori Robinson was excited when she learned that her health club had another gym catering to children &#151; she thought it was an excellent idea for her two teenage daughters, who were slightly overweight.
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Participating in physical  activities in and out of school more than two times a week  protects adolescents from becoming overweight young adults,  according to new research.
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By Joann DiGennaro  WASHINGTON  --  At an educators' meeting in Washington last fall, conversation turned to whether the federal government should support programming for this nation's most gifted and talented high school students.
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HOUSTON -- Well before the workout is to begin on a typically clammy June day, Sean Williams strolls into Fox Gymnasium on the campus of Rice University, unrecognized by the scores of high schoolers participating in a basketball camp. Williams removes himself to a corner of the gym and does some stretching exercises.
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By Jennifer Kapiolani Saxton, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 9--EDWARDSVILLE -- A healthy life is much more than just eating right and exercising, said a Lincoln Middle School student Thursday during the school's health fair.
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By Will OremusSTAFF  FOSTER CITY -- A local group's plans to give Foster City its first high school got their first official endorsement -- albeit a tentative one -- in a report from city staff released this week.
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Before the Olympics, the five gold medals and the world records, Michael Johnson was a skinny kid who almost quit his high school track team because he didn't think he was good enough. Now he wants to turn youngsters into better athletes with equipment and coaching that wasn't around when he went to Dallas Skyline High.
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By Amanda Gardner, HealthDay Reporter    HealthDayNews -- Health experts are trying to move the nation's battle of the bulge to an important new front: the schools.    Schools need to be more active in teaching heart-healthy behavior and they should offer more physical education and healthful meals, a new American Heart Association statement urges...
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An expansion of a federal pilot program that provides schools with funding for fruits and vegetables might help students get as enthusiastic about brussels sprouts and broccoli as they are about pizza and ice cream, a U.S. Agriculture Department official said on Thursday...