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Kim Strong – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Improving educational outcomes and school conditions for historically marginalized students has been a primary goal since the school accountability movement began in the 1960s. However, despite decades of legislation, policy, and enactment designed to achieve this purpose, historically marginalized students continue to suffer from disparate…
Descriptors: School Responsibility, Accountability, Student Needs, Critical Race Theory
Ellie Wheeler Hill; Sarah Argue; Greg Holland – Arkansas Research Center, 2022
The Arkansas Better Chance (ABC) program longitudinal study (2009-2021) reviews the changing circumstances and outcomes of participation in Pre-K services in Arkansas. The "core comparison" of this study is between ABC participants and students who had no known Pre-K participation but have similar low socio-economic household income…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Longitudinal Studies, Preschool Education, Outcomes of Education
Leanne Eko; Wendy Barkley – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2022
Financial support provided by the Legislature helps to ensure Washington children have access to healthy school meals. In fiscal year 2022, the Legislature provided $11.5 million to eliminate the co-pay for reduced-price meals, support summer meal programs, provide school districts with financial support for breakfast meal service, and provide…
Descriptors: Food Service, Schools, Nutrition, Breakfast Programs
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Lalli, Gurpinder Singh – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Abstract Households with children eligible for Free School Meals are at risk of food insecurity. This paper reports on a rapid-response study that investigated the impact of the school food voucher scheme during the COVID-19 crisis on young people, families and schools. It pays close attention to the reliance of the state on the goodwill of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, Eligibility
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Mohammed, Abdul-Rahim – Global Studies of Childhood, 2023
The latest round of fiscal austerity in Ghana has meant that the feeding rate paid to the service providers of Ghana's school feeding programme is both frozen and unrealistically low. Accordingly, service providers adopt discretionary coping strategies. This qualitative case study, therefore, explores the impacts of austerity on children's school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Public Schools, Financial Problems
Nuwayyir Alenezi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of selected demographic factors on the academic achievement of high school students. More specifically, this study was concerned with the effects of the variables gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) scores in Mathematics,…
Descriptors: Demography, Influences, Academic Achievement, High School Students
Rabia Telli – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation consists of two chapters that examine the impact of educational and positive youth development programs on students' academic and behavioral outcomes. In the first chapter, I evaluate the effect of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) program, a school meal provision allowing schools meeting the eligibility requirements to…
Descriptors: Economics, Youth Programs, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
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Moore, Graham F.; Anthony, Rebecca E.; Hawkins, Jemma; Van Godwin, Jordan; Murphy, Simon; Hewitt, Gillian; Melendez-Torres, G. J. – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
Young people's wellbeing is often lowest where they assume a relatively low position within their school's socioeconomic hierarchy, for example, among poorer children attending more affluent schools. Transition to secondary school is a period during which young people typically enter an environment which is more socioeconomically diverse than…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Well Being, Secondary School Students, Mental Health
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Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Rothbart, Michah W. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020
This paper investigates the impact of extending free school lunch to all students, regardless of income, on academic performance in New York City middle schools. Using a difference-in-differences design and unique longitudinal, student-level data, we derive credibly causal estimates of the impacts of "Universal Free Meals" (UFM) on test…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Program Effectiveness, Middle School Students, Academic Achievement
Billings, Kara Clifford – Congressional Research Service, 2020
The federal government has a long history of investing in programs for feeding children, starting with federal aid for school lunch programs in the 1930s. Today, federal child nutrition programs support food served to children in schools and a variety of other institutional settings. The child nutrition programs support meals and snacks served to…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Lunch Programs, Nutrition, Federal Programs
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Farris, Alisha R.; Mann, Georgianna; Parks, Justin; Arrowood, John; Roy, Manan; Misyak, Sarah – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Schools are a promising site for influencing the dietary intake of children and adolescents. The US Department of Agriculture recently released flexibilities to requirements for whole-grains, sodium, and low-fat milk in schools who demonstrated difficulty meeting nutrition standards for school meal programs. The support of School…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Dietetics, Hunger, Children
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Ciren, Baizhen; Aadland, Eli Kristin; Hu, Aihua; Wergedahl, Hege – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
This article presents a case study on changing food practices from traditional cold sandwich meals to hot meals in a Norwegian kindergarten. Data were sourced from interviews, complemented by non-participatory video observation and observational notes. Building on Fullan's model for understanding a change process, this paper presents the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Food, Change Strategies
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Rajbhandari-Thapa, Janani; Vandellen, Michelle; Just, David; Panda, Saswat – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2020
Purpose/Objectives: Fruit and vegetable (F/V) consumption among children continues to be lower than recommended. This study tested the effectiveness of nudges using fun facts about F/V on F/V consumption by elementary school students in grades 1 through 5. The study hypothesis is higher F/V consumption with nudges. Methods: The design was a…
Descriptors: Food, Nutrition, Health Education, Elementary School Students
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Tan, May Lynn; Laraia, Barbara; Madsen, Kristine A.; Johnson, Rucker C.; Ritchie, Lorrene – Journal of School Health, 2020
Background: The National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs help to reduce food insecurity and improve nutrition. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) enables high-poverty schools to offer breakfast and lunch at no cost to all students. This study examines associations between CEP and participation among students eligible for free or…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Hunger
James R. Izzo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Curriculum-based measurements (CBM) are used in schools to screen students for academic difficulties. Oral reading fluency curriculum-based measures (CBM-R) are the most popular, yet several studies have identified predictive bias in CBM-Rs in relation to key variables (e.g., race, sex). Despite a massive increase in the use of these measures as…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Bias, Curriculum Based Assessment, Reading Tests
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