Abstract
To provide nutrition educators with a broad-based quantitative assessment of nutrition education in elementary schools, a mail survey of a random sample of public K-6 teachers in New York State and northern New Jersey was conducted. Three-fourths of the 2,160 respondents currently teach nutrition/foods, averaging 9.7 hours of class time for nutrition per year. Most teachers agreed that nutrition is „important, “ although more than half of the teachers thought nutrition could be taught most effectively at a grade level other than their own. Multivariate probit and regression analyses indicate that high school or college nutrition and foods courses and inservice nutrition workshops were significantly related to the teacher's decision to teach nutrition and to the number of hours nutrition was taught. Teacher demand for future nutrition workshops is limited; while half of the teachers thought they would „probably“ attend such a workshop, when all subjects were considered together, only six percent requested a nutrition workshop.
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