As recently as 1969 about half the school aged children in the United States walked or bicycled to school. Today fewer than 15% of school children walk or bike to school and as much as 20-30% of morning traffic is generated by parents driving their children to school. Children are less active today and the majority of children living within a 1/2 mile of schools are driven in private vehicles. Obesity rates are on the rise and the cost of obesity...

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs can improve safety, not just for children, but for the entire community. Encouraging children to walk and bike to school more often reduces congestion and pollution around our schools and helps form community partnerships. It also provides opportunities for students, teachers, and parents to increase their physical activity and improve public health.

"This compendium gathers examples of assessment practice in 24 higher education institutions. All institutions have an effective assessment approach in one or more of the major assessment areas"--

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"Human Terrain' is two stories in one. The first exposes the U.S. effort to enlist the best and the brightest of American universities in a struggle for the hearts and minds of its enemies.... The other story is about a brilliant young scholar who leaves the university to join a Human Terrain team. After working as a humanitarian activist and winning a Marshall Scholarship to study at Oxford, Michael Bhatia returned to Brown University to conduct...