ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION POLICY STUDIES LABORATORY (EPSL) http://edpolicylab.org ********** Website Update: March 2003 Please note the following new postings from CERU and EPRU: COMMERCIALISM IN EDUCATION RESEARCH UNIT (CERU) (http://schoolcommercialism.org/) Other Writing of Interest: . March 27, 2003. Healthy Food, Healthy Kids (a parents' guide to school food), Aptos Middle School, San Francisco. Find this document on the Other Writing of Interest page at http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/CERU/CERU_Articles_Of_Interest.htm . March 26, 2003. Arizona Schools Failing Nutritionally, by Anne Ryman, Arizona Republic. Find this document on the Other Writing of Interest page at http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/CERU/CERU_Articles_Of_Interest.htm . March 15, 2003. UW Students Won't Give Addresses to Credit Card Company, Seattle (Wash.) Post-Intelligencer. Find this document on the Other Writing of Interest page at http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/CERU/CERU_Articles_Of_Interest.htm . March 6, 2003. A Push to Stay in School: A Target of Anti-Sugar Activists, CCE Defends Its Sales in Schools, by Scott Leith, Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Find this document on the Other Writing of Interest page at http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/CERU/CERU_Articles_Of_Interest.htm . March 5, 2003. 'A la carte' School Lunches Under Fire, by Dan Freedman, San Francisco Chronicle. Find this document on the Other Writing of Interest page at http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/CERU/CERU_Articles_Of_Interest.htm Community Corner: . March 10, 2003. Soda Pop Lobby Beats Citizen Groups on House Junk Food Bill; Soda Jerks Stop Vote on HB1866, by Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools. Find this document on the Community Corner page at http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/CERU/CERU_Community_Corner.htm . March 6, 2003. Soft Drink Industry Kills Senate Junk Food Bill in Washington State, by Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools. Find this document on the Community Corner page at http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/CERU/CERU_Community_Corner.htm . March 4, 2003. Seattle Citizens "Arrest" Coca-Cola Corporation: "Deputies" Enforce Ban on School Vending Machine Ads, by Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools. Find this document on the Community Corner page at http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/CERU/CERU_Community_Corner.htm EDUCATION POLICY RESEARCH UNIT (EPRU) (http://educationanalysis.org/) Point of View Essays: . March 2, 2003. Low Pay + Big Classes = Teacher Crisis, by Alex Molnar, Arizona State University. Find this document on the Point of View Essays page at http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/EPRU/epru_point_of_view.htm Letters to the Editor: . March 12, 2003. On Including Islam in School Textbooks, by EPRU Fellow Paul Shaker (letter to the editor, Education Week). Find this document on the Letters to the Editor page at http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/EPRU/epru_2003_LetterToEditor.htm *************** The Education Policy Studies Laboratory (EPSL) at Arizona State University offers high quality analyses of national education policy issues and provides an analytical resource for educators, journalists, and citizens. It includes the Commercialism in Education Research Unit (CERU), the Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA), the Education Policy Reports Project (EPRP), the Education Policy Research Unit (EPRU), and the Language Policy Research Unit (LPRU). The EPSL is directed by ASU Professor Alex Molnar. Visit the EPSL website at http://edpolicylab.org/