As a partner in the SPARK (Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids) project, CRDG continued its work with early elementary children in the Wai‘anae and Keaukaha areas in 2005. In its second year, SPARK is an initiative of the W.…
21st Century Community Learning Centers
The 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, as mandated in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, establishes community centers in Hawai‘i schools that provide academic enrichment and other services and activities designed to reinforce and complement the regular…
Transitions to Teaching
The College of Education and CRDG have teamed up with the College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources, and the Hawai‘i Department of Education to address the shortage of mathematics and science teachers in Hawai‘i’s secondary schools. The five-year, federallyfunded…
CRDG Contributes to Understanding of School Health Issues
CRDG has continued its commitment to working with the Hawai‘i Departments of Education and Health to monitor health risk behaviors among Hawai‘i’s student population. Known collectively as the Hawai‘i School Health Surveys, the 2005 versions of the Centers for Disease…
Hawai‘i Nutrition Education Needs Assessment
Susan Saka, Morris Lai, and Sandy Shimabukuro led a four-year study on the nutritional habits and height and weight of fourth and tenth graders in Hawai‘i. This study is the third installment in a longitudinal study that has looked at…