INTRODUCTIONIn this review we assess the recent developments in research and practice pertaining to health education in schools. We begin by defining school health education within the broader framework of community health edu cation and promotion. The shifting priorities, purposes, and assumptions of school health education are traced and attributed. They lead to a new generation of problems and methods that call for a concentration of re search on ways to combine the classroom contributions of health education with the broader organizational, economic, and environmental supports that will predispose, enable, and reinforce behavior conducive to health.