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Toyama, Noriko – Cogent Education, 2022
In most Japanese preschools, children are involved in setting up lunches as monitors' activities. The current study conducted six-month long naturalistic observations of lunch monitors' activities in a nursery school in Tokyo. Ten five-year-old children were included in the analysis. By engaging in the activities with their peers, the lunch…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Cooperation, Lunch Programs
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Chavez, Luis; Malik, Neal; Kapella-Mshigeni, Salome – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: Approximately 20% of US children are obese and these rates are expected to increase. The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides meals to millions of students and may influence their body mass index (BMI). This study aimed to investigate whether students who participate in the NSLP have a higher BMI when compared to those that do…
Descriptors: Students, Obesity, Lunch Programs, Body Composition
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Daniel Long; D. Betsy McCoach; Anthony Gambino; Scott Peters – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background: Traditionally, SREE has traditionally focused on examining the effects of educational interventions with rigorous causal analysis. However, studies of racial/ethnic inequities in education do not always lend themselves to experimental or even quasi-experimental designs. Further, well formulated descriptive studies can provide crucial…
Descriptors: Intersectionality, Academically Gifted, Talent Identification, Equal Education
Handbury, Jessie; Moshary, Sarah – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
We study the private market response to the National School Lunch Program, documenting economically meaningful spillovers to non-recipients. We focus on the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), an expansion of the lunch program under the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Under the CEP, participating schools offer free lunch to all students. We…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Nutrition, Child Health, Lunch Programs
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Robert Kaiser; Daniel Hamlin – Education and Urban Society, 2024
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federal program that provides free and reduced priced lunch to millions of low-income children in urban schools. Empirical research shows mixed results on the physical and nutritional health of urban students participating in the program. However, a considerable limitation of this literature is that it…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Students, Urban Schools, Lunch Programs
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Hallmark, Alex; Lambert, Laurel; Knight, Kathy; Knight, Scott; Valliant, Melinda – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2022
Methods: A web-based survey platform was used to disseminate an online survey to CNP managers via email. A previously validated survey was used consisting of Likert-type scales, multiple choice, and an open-ended question. Descriptive statistics were used for each question, obtaining response numbers and percentages. Analysis of variance…
Descriptors: Children, Nutrition, Breakfast Programs, Lunch Programs
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Simmons, Makayla; Hildebrand, Deana; Joyce, Jill – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2022
Purpose/Objectives: The average Healthy Eating Index-2015 (HEI) score for children 2-17 years is 53.9/100, which needs improvement. HEI scores for dietary quality (DQ) directly and positively impact children's health, academic performance, and their future. Because school Child Nutrition Programs impact a large proportion of U.S. children, it is…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Dietetics, Food Service, Educational Legislation
Gutierrez, Emily; Blagg, Kristin; Chingos, Matthew M. – Urban Institute, 2022
The share of students eligible for free and reduced-price lunch (FRPL) via meal applications is often used as a proxy for the share of students from low-income households at a school. But the recent adoption of universal meal programs, such as the Community Eligibility Provision, make it more difficult to consistently measure student poverty…
Descriptors: Poverty, Low Income Students, Urban Schools, Measurement Techniques
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Spruance, Lori A.; Vo, Tien – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: School meals have demonstrated positive effects on dietary habits of children and adolescents, yet opportunities to increase participation exist. Little is known about how participation differs by race/ethnicity or by acculturation levels, thus this study aims to identify acculturation and race/ethnicity on school meal participation of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Eating Habits
First Focus on Children, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released an update to the nutrition standards schools must meet in the breakfasts and lunches served to more than 30 million children. The last time USDA fully updated school meal standards was in 2012. Research on the impact of those changes found that the nutritional quality of school meals…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Nutrition, Federal Programs
Jesse Strong – ProQuest LLC, 2023
For many years schools located within concentrated areas of poverty in an urban school county in south Florida have experienced alarmingly high teacher turnover rates and alarmingly low academic performance scores. In 2015, in a lauded expose printed by the "Tampa Bay Times," five schools, all of which would go on to become part of the…
Descriptors: Poverty Areas, Poverty, Urban Schools, Faculty Mobility
Tabatha Jeanette Efaw – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative correlational-predictive study addressed the predictive relationships of County Political Leaning (Republican vs. Democratic/reference) and Poverty of Student Population (operationalized as percentage of students enrolled in Free and Reduced Price Lunch programs) with Out-of-school Suspension in public high schools in California.…
Descriptors: Counties, Political Influences, Poverty, Student Characteristics
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Sosu, Edward M.; Dare, Shadrach; Goodfellow, Claire; Klein, Markus – Review of Education, 2021
School absenteeism is detrimental to life course outcomes and is known to be socioeconomically stratified. However, the link between socioeconomic status (SES) and school absence is complex given the multidimensional nature of both family SES (e.g., income, education, occupational status) and absenteeism (e.g., truancy, sickness, suspension).…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Attendance, At Risk Students, Effect Size
Williams, Kim; Kimathi, Moyo; Papa, Francesca; Miller, Morgan; Beyler, Nick – US Department of Agriculture, 2021
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers the Child Nutrition (CN) Programs, including the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), School Milk Program (SMP), School Breakfast Program (SBP), Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), and Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). FNS provides oversight, guidance,…
Descriptors: Food Service, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Purchasing
Laura Boyle – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This action research study, set in a midwestern high school in the United States, was designed to investigate the impact of implementing equitable grading practices in a first semester ninth-grade biology course. Many grading practices commonly used in classrooms in the United States are subjective, can be used to maintain compliance in the…
Descriptors: Grading, Educational Practices, Equal Education, Outcomes of Education
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