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Assefa, Easaw Alemayehu – Educational Planning, 2023
According to the Ethiopia Ministry of Education (2015), school feeding initiatives, such as feeding children in food insecure conditions, providing educational resources, and school meals are essential for supporting access to general education. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of school feeding program on the academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 8, Hunger
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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
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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
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Doughty, Kimberly N.; Treu, Judith A.; Eckner, Kerstin – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2020
Purpose/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify key drivers of students' breakfast habits, including eating breakfast at home or at school, to inform strategies that school nutrition professionals might use to increase participation in School Breakfast Programs (SBPs). Methods: A convenience sample of students in grades 1-12 from two…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Breakfast Programs, Student Participation, Student Attitudes
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Hauver, Jennifer; Shealey-Griffiths, Glennda – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
One in four children in the state of Georgia is food insecure. In the city of Athens, 60 miles northeast of Atlanta, the number approaches one in three. More than 33 percent of residents have significantly limited access to healthy foods, living in areas of the city that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has identified as food deserts.…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Social Studies, Food, Hunger
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Crawford, Claire; Edwards, Amy; Farquharson, Christine; Greaves, Ellen; Trevelyan, Grace; Wallace, Emma; White, Clarissa – Education Endowment Foundation, 2016
The Magic Breakfast project provided 106 schools with support and resources to offer a free, universal, before-school breakfast club, including to all Year 2 and Year 6 pupils. The aim of the project was to improve attainment outcomes by increasing the number of children who ate a healthy breakfast. The schools in the project were schools in…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students, Breakfast Programs, Intervention
Colorado Children's Campaign, 2014
"Kids Count in Colorado!" is an annual publication of the Colorado Children's Campaign, which provides the best available state- and county-level data to measure and track the education, health and general well-being of the state's children. "Kids Count in Colorado!" informs policy debates and community discussions, serving as…
Descriptors: Child Health, Well Being, Academic Achievement, Holistic Approach
Murphy, J. Michael; Wehler, Cheryl A.; Pagano, Maria E.; Little, Michelle; Kleinman, Ronald E.; Jellinek, Michael S. – Online Submission, 1998
Using large-scale surveys from nine states, the Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project (CCHIP) estimates that 8% of American children under the age of 12 years experience hunger each year. CCHIP operationalizes child hunger as multiple experiences of parent-reported food insufficiency due to constrained resources. The current study…
Descriptors: Hunger, Individual Development, Low Income Students, Elementary School Students