2000 - Non-CERU Publications/Writing
Document categories:
You Are What You Buy
Date:
October 14, 2000
Authors:
Richard and Joyce Wolkomir
Source:
Smithsonian Magazine
An insight into the effects
of mass marketing on children by Richard and Joyce Wolkomir.
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"The nation's schools,
caught between stagnant education spending and advertisers' growing interest
in the youth market, are suffering an unprecedented onslaught of commercial
overtures."
WordDate:
September 14, 2000
Remarks by Professor Alex
Molnar, director of the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona
State University, protesting the "Golden Marble" award ceremony
created to celebrate advertising to children.
Date:
June 16, 2000
Institution:
Harvard School of Public Health
Source:
Around the School
Article reports on research
of Grace Wyshak that first appeared in the June 2000 issue of Archives
of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine of the effects of soda pop on the
likelihood of having a bone fracture.
Date:
February 2000
Author:
Sara Freedman
Institution:
Boston College
An article exploring the
impact of grantseeking on urban public school teachers.
Mrs. Clinton Calls for Bans on Ads for Preschoolers
Date:
September 26, 2000
Press Release from Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for U.S. Senate.
Date:
September 14, 2000
Congressman George Miller reports about commercial activities in public schools.
Date:
September 2000
Source:
United States General Accounting Office
A report by United States General Accounting Office (GAO)
to Congressional Requesters.
Date:
August 2000
Source:
Team Nutrition
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture's (USDA) Team Nutrition is working to raise awareness at the
local level and facilitate change to promote healthy school nutrition
environments. Team Nutrition has developed an action kit, Changing
the Scene-Improving the School Nutrition Environment. This kit can
help those at the local level promote school environments that allow students
to learn about and participate in healthy eating and physical activity.
The kit is free to those interested in making changes at their local school
or school district.
Commercialism is Rampant in Schools
Date:
November 15, 2000
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
Source:
EagleForum.org
Schafly questions: "Is
your child watching too much television? Eating too many junk foods and
drinks instead of what's healthy? Nagging you to buy expensive sneakers?
Too easily swayed by advertising? If so, why are the schools encouraging
all those things?"
Date:
November 2000
Author:
Derrick Jenson
Source:
The Sun
An Interview with EPSL
Director Alex Molnar of Arizona State University by Derrick Jensen of
The Sun.
Date:
October 26, 2000
This article discusses
the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school proposal to sell corporate naming rights
to classrooms and cafeterias.
Date:
October 4, 2000
An article describing the
ban on the controversial Montreal-based youth news network for advertising
more than teaching.
Date:
September 24, 2000
Author:
Ellen Goodman
Source:
Boston Globe
Ellen Goodman cirticizes
the NIKE ad and says that it is "advertising violence to kids".
Date:
September 23, 2000
Source:
Boston Globe
Staff Editorial