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Fall 2007, Volume 11 Number 3

About this issue

We, the powerful...by Jen Chapin

Where there is life there is hope...by Daniella Boston

Kids can make a difference: a program of empowerment...by Bill Ayres

Another year has drawn to a close...and what a year it has been...by Larry and Jane Levine

A kid's sense of fairness: Equal exchange's new fundraising program...by Kelsie Evans

From one kid to another:an artistic movement...by LeAnne Bagnall

Winter/Spring 2007, Volume 11 Number 3

About this issue

Awake and Engaged... by Bill Bolling

Putting The Book Back In Book Fair...
by Josh Golin

Brooklyn Preeschoolars Address Hunger
...by Caroline Batzdorf

Its A Girl Thing...by Abraham Paulous

 

Fall 2006, Volume 11 Number 3

About this issue

Why "KIDS: Is More Than Ever Relevant To Our World... 
by Joan Dye Gussow

Beyond Nourishing The Body: Talking About Food In Hunger 101... 
by Lindy Wood

Meditations On Corn... by Jen Chapin

Heifer Study Tour To Honduras... 
by Judy Huynh

The Elimination Of School Fees: A Step Towards Universal Education... 
by Molly Zeff

What A Year This Was...
by Jane Finn Levine & Larry Levine

 

Summer 2006, Volume 11 Number 3

About this issue

This is what you should be doing: The story of reach and Teach... 
by Craig Wiesner

Teaching health equality to kids... 
by Andrea De Voght, Allison Eisinger, Linn Gould, and Liz Mogford

Cooking for Life: Youth--Providing At-Risk Youth With Hands-On-Nutrition and Cooking Skills...by Karen Dolan

The Bullis School Scores Big With First Hunger Awareness Week... 
by Jim Roumell

Good Cents For Oakland: Engaging Children In Community Service... 
by Dagmar Serota

What Else Can We Do About Hunger? Bread For The World... by Martin Fergus

 

Winter 2006, Volume 11 Number 3

About this issue

FROM WOMB TO TOMB: A PRESCRIPTION FOR IMPROVING OUR NATION’S HEALTH
By Stephen Bezruchka, M.D.

Fall 2005, Volume 10 Number 3

About this issue

Growing Up With Hunger 
by Jen Chapin

How The Military Emulates Corporate Marketers - And Why That Is A Bad Thing 
by Josh Golin

Why Should We Care About People We Don't Know?... 
by Laura Lampman & Greg Minahan

Teachers And Kids:  Taking Action In Response To Hurricane Katrina... 
by Ava L. McCall

The Children Are Our Future 
by Whitney Shinkle

 

Summer 2005, Volume 10 Number 2

About this issue

Discovering Hope in a world of poverty 
by Martin C. Fergus, Ph.D.

Why Teach About Social Justice Issues: Answering An Essential Question 
by Carol Gose Devine

SSH! We Don't Want To Mention It: Resistence To Addressing Poverty In Teaching 
by Ava L. McCall, Ph.D.

An Open Letter To Kids Can Make A Difference 
by Janine-Murphy-Evenson

Winter 2005, Volume 10 Number 1

About This Issue

God, The Tsunami And Human Generosity...
by Rabbi Michael Lerner

In Tsunami's Wake, Don't Forget Other Crises...
A Report From Oxfam America

Kids Can Help Too...
by Linda Starr

Building The Bridge: From Food Charity To Food Justice...
by Noreen Springstead

Fall 2004, Volume 9 Number 3

About This Issue

Always Question...
by Julia Butterfly Hill

Making Connections...
by Joan Dye Gussow

Palo Community Schools International Dinner...
by Judy Huynh

Baby House #12...
by Stephanie Kempf

Consuming Kids...
by Laura Grabe

Hey Kids, You Can Make A Difference...
by Bill Ayres

School Fees...
by Kolleen Bouchane and Leah Goldfine

Kids And Values...
by Tim Kasser

It Is That Time Of Year Again...
by Jane and Larry Levine

Spring/Summer 2004, Volume 9 Number 2

About This Issue

Teaching Water, Quenching Thirst: A Five Step Program...
by Peter Mann

A Child's Garden Of Peace:  Sowing The Seeds Of The Future...
by Illene Pevec

Kids Can Make A Difference - Lima Style...
by Maria Cullen

Creating Hope:  Students Create A Global Environmental Action Network Using Technology...
by Ed Gragert

Investing In Your Community:  The Concept Of Social Capital...
by Frank Martinez Nocito

 

Winter 2004, Volume 9 Number 3

About This Issue

A Commentary on commercial exploitation of children of colr and low-income children
by Velma LaPoint

Webster Stanley Elementary School: Making a Difference for Children and Families
Ava L. McCall, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

HUNGER and ENVIRONMENTAL NUTRITION...
by Fern Gale Estrow

Board Game Becomes Effective Educational Tool…
by Lindy Wood

Fall 2003, Volume 9 Number 3

Table of Contents

About This Issue

A Case for Global Literacy
By Rex Enoch

California Students Take The Challenge
By Kerry Ruetenik

Latino Teens Find A Reason For Learning
By Diane Carman
Special to The Denver Post

Fall Has Come

Hunger And The Environment Fact Sheet

 

Spring/Summer 2003, Volume 9 Number 3

Table of Contents

About This Issue

Nutrition-Body and Soul
By Elizabeth Simpson and Henning Sehmsdorf  

Bringing Up Children in The Land of Plenty
By Anne Neuberger

How I Got Here From There
By Anne Baker

Peace Corps Volunteers over 60 Years of Age
By Kathy Baker

Thanks to All

Winter 2003, Volume 8 Number 3

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

Looking In, Looking Out...
by Jen Chapin

The Role of Food Professionals In Ending World Hunger...
by Joan Gussow

But I'm A Teacher, What Does the Problem Of Poverty and Hunger Have to Do With Me?...
by Ava McCall

Reflections on How to Integrate One's Day Job into a "Real Life...
by Beth Segers

It Is The Doing That Makes A Difference...
by Jim Dricker

Fall 2002, Volume 7
Number 3

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

Educating About Corporations...
by Robert Hinkley

Corporate Influence On High School Economic Classes...
by Mark Maier

Music and Social Action: Can A Song Make A Difference?...
by Kelly Hayes

Talking 'Bout A New Generation...
by Lisa Enzer

The New Frontier for Food Banks: Addressing the ROOT Causes of Hunger...
by Kim Thomas

Spring/Summer 2002, Volume 7 Number 2

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

People, Not Technology, Are The Key to Ending Hunger...
by Frances Moore Lappé

The Case for Local Food...
by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Becoming Earthfriends...
by Mary Anne Anselmino

Images of Development in Tanzania...
by J. Rex Enoch

Music and Social Action: Can A Song Make A Difference?...
by Jen Chapin

Hunger Music to Use With Teacher Guide...

 

 

Winter 2002, Volume 7 Number 1

Table of Contents

About This Issue

Why Does Everyone Hate America...
by John Western, Ph.D.

An Administration in Crisis...
by Abigail Deutsch

September 11th: Finding Answers to Tough Questions...
by Stephanie Kempf

From Charity to Change...
by Noreen Springstead

Enduring Terrors...

 

Fall 2001, Volume 6 Number

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

Steamboat? So What?...
by Kirpatrick Sale

Kids Can Make a Difference: A Model for Social Change
by Ava L. McCall, Ph.D.

Dining With The Poor: A Visit to Mexico...
by Marta Morris Flanagan

HIV/AIDS and Sustainable Living...
by Kristof & Stacia Nordin

People Care: Getting From Awareness to Action...
by Dan Zukergood, Ph.D.

This Newletter Is Not Free

Food for Thought...

 

Spring/Summer 2001, Volume 6 Number

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

Food in Africa - Finding New Solutions to Old Problems
by Kristof Nordin

Learning About Food Systems...
by Carmela Federico

YAH! - Youth Against Hunger...
by Lisa Enzer, M.Ed.

The Empty Bowls Project...
by John Hartom

Creating REN (the RESULTS Educators' Network) - An Update...
by Keith Wilhelmi

Hunger Banquet: Not Quite An Oxymoron...
by Linda Glen Dembo

The Giraffe Heroes Program...

The New World Hunger Year Web Site...

 

Winter 2001, Volume 6 Number

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

KIDS and Values
by Tim Kasser, Ph.D.

Teaching Tolerance Magazine

Will We Destroy the Environment Trying to Grow Food for Everyone?
by Joan Dye Gussow, Ed.D.

Attitudes On Poverty Can Affect Individual Health
by Carol Easley Allen, Ph.D., R.N.

U.S. Mayors Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities (December 14, 2000)...

Fun with Duk and Jin
by Frank Lingo

The Real Thing: Democracy as a Contact Sport
by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

Building Youth Awareness about the Food System: Putting Research to Work for Educators
by Alice Harmon

 

Fall 2000, Volume 5 Number

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

RESULTS Educators Network: Helping Teachers Empower Students
by Dan Zukergood, Ph.D.

RESULTS Educators Network and The Practice of Freedom
by J. Fay Kelle, Ph.D.

Character Education: The Metal Detector of the Soul...
by Ted Haynie, Ph.D.

UNICEF Report Spurs Students to Act...
by Melinda Young

It's a World Food Day "Teach-In"...
by David Milburn

From Our Perspective...
by Larry Levine and Jane Levine, Ed.D.

Food For Thought...

KIDS Web Site...

 

Spring/Summer 2000, Volume 5 Number

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

Finding Solutions to Hunger Workshops in Kentucky
by April Stone

Channel One
by Jim Metrock

Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week...
by Karen Evans

Church of the Brethren's Seminar...
by Julianne Rana

Reaching Teachers with Hunger Information and Resources - Online
by Mary Stein

World Food Day - October 16, 2000...

This Newsletter Is Not Free

The Bleshman School - A Story In Three Parts...

Back To The Barricades
by Warren Belasco

Connecting Small Farms To Schools: The Farm To School Initiative
by Noreen Springstead

 

Winter 2000, Volume 5 Number 1 

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

What Can I Do, I'm Just a Kid?
by Bill Ayres

Seeing Our Face
by Patricia Hesse

Hunger Fact...

Curbing Hunger, Inc...
by Father Stephen Rozzelle

KIDS Visits the Fieldston School...

How to be Like a Spider - Building Relationships by Spinning Webs
by Carol Bartlett

Students at ESRI's "Kid's Camp" Use GIS to Analyze International Hunger Issues...
by Brenda Simmons

Building an Ark...
by Nancy Palazzo

Hunger at Home...
by Benjamin Dow

Vatican Radio Interview

Beyond Seattle: The Struggle for Food Security
by Peter Mann

Dear KIDS...

October 1999, Volume 4 Number 3 Fieldston School Issue

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

Introduction...
by Dr. Joseph Healy, Head of School

Community Service and Service Learning Program
by Angela G. Vassos, Senior Director of Community Services & Service-Learning Programs

How Sixty Hours of Community Service Changed the Way I Think
by Jeremy Berliss, Class of '94

Mandating Community Service...
by Sofia Binioris, Grade 9

Progressivism: Alive and Kicking in Fieldston's Service-Learning Program
by Jessica Gould, Grade 12

The Secret Life of Monica Gisolfi...
by Marjana Jaidi, Grade 10

Student Reflections: Operation Chicken Soup...
by Deborah Frankel, Grade 9
by Yevegeniy Izrayelit, Grade 9

Student Reflections: Homework Help...
by Vanessa Tobar and Niko Vicario, Grade 11

Student Reflections: Ittleson...
by Jessica Gould and Nicole Kief, Grade 12
by Anya Brodsky, Grade 12
by Lesle Levine, Grade 12
by Miriam Wallace, Grade 12

Student Reflections: The Student-to-Student Program...
by John Okrent, Grade 12
by Devani Lai, Grade 12

Student Reflections: PALS Program...
by Jenny Werbell, Grade 11

Community Service... Program News
by Alison Rappaport, Grade 11
by Alexander Blumenthal, Class of '97
by Tamar Hiram, Grade 11

 

March 1999, Volume 4 Number 2

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

Teaching Future Teachers About Hunger
by Dr. Ava L. McCall, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

Hot Topics...

Project Second Wind
by Amy Stork

The Trial
by Kate Lyman

Resources on Homelessness

Letters From Honduras
by Sascha Lamstein

Dear KIDS...
Mail from near and far

October 1998, Volume 4 Number 1

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

Beyond Coping
by Jane Darby

Justice, Do It
by Julianne Rana

Thanks...

Helping Kids Cope, Student Voices...

Dear KIDS...
Mail from near and far

May 1998, Volume 3 Number 4

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

Gorham, Maine Hunger Fair Empowers Students, Media and a U.S. Senator...
by Jan Twombly

Summer Reading

The Fifth Grade Students At The Village School Said About The Hunger Fair...

The Sixth Grade Students At The Jordan Small School Said About The Hunger Fair...

Letter From The Editor...

April 1998, Volume 4 Number 2

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

Portsmouth (NH) High School...
Art Meyer, History Teacher

E-Mail From Israel

Portsmouth (NH) High School..
The Students

The Plea

Letter From Oregon Food Bank

Thanks To The Following Donors

Fall 1997, Volume 4 Number 1

Table of Contents

About This Issue...

Making A Difference
by Kelly Keene, Seventh Grade Teacher
Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, Maine

Celebrating The Arts
In Honor Of World Hunger Education

Opening Speech
by John Griffith

Poems

Masks

Closing Speech
by Leah Cheney

Teacher Guide
Table of Contents

Teacher Guide
Introduction
by Joan Dye Gussow

Teacher Guide
Advance Praise

April 1997, Volume 3 Number 3

Table of Contents

About This Issue...
by Larry Levine

Experience...the Root of All Understanding
by Carol Gose DeVine, Headmistress,
The Caedmon School

Student's Page

Student's Artwork

"It's Not Fair!"
by Jane Darby

Hunger Banquet
by Eliana Lane


March 1997, Volume 3 Number 2

Table of Contents

Local Knowledge For Sustainable Living
by John Page, Program Director,
International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC)
and Steven Gorelick, U.S. Coordinator, ISEC

Kids Page
Featuring Fourth Grade Students from
The Mitchell School, Kittery, Maine

Meeting the Masai People
by Ellen Harris

Teacher Talk
Ladakh In The Classroom
by Anne Carey, Special Education Teacher, Bellingham, MA

A Compelling Presentation
by Jason Black, Managing Editor, Why Magazine


October 1996, Volume 3 Number 1

Table of Contents

World Hunger: A Shocking Realization
by Pamitha Weerasinghe, Eighth Grade Student

A Response To World Hunger: A Shocking Realization
by Peter Mann, International Coordinator, World Hunger Year (WHY)

News From Here And There
The ramblings of Larry Levine, Editor

The Stand For Children: Something We Must Do Everyday
by Jason Black, Managing Editor, Why Magazine

Reflections on the Stand For Children
by Jim Hanna, Executive Director of the Maine Coalition For Food Security

Hunger And Poverty Music


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