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Download full textArgue, Sarah E.; Holland, Greg O. – Arkansas Research Center, 2020
This report demonstrates the effects of the Arkansas Better Chance program (ABC) on late elementary and middle school outcomes. End of year assessments, which varied over the course of the study years, were examined for students of three preschool cohorts. Students included in the statewide study received free lunch all years and were enrolled in…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Preschool Children
Argue, Sarah E.; Holland, Greg O. – Arkansas Research Center, 2019
This report demonstrates the effects of the Arkansas Better Chance program (ABC) on late elementary and middle school outcomes. End of year assessments, which varied over the course of the study years, were examined for students of three preschool cohorts. Students included in the statewide study received free lunch all years and were enrolled in…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Preschool Children
Argue, Sarah E.; Holland, Greg O. – Arkansas Research Center, 2018
This report demonstrates the effects of the Arkansas Better Chance program (ABC) on late elementary and middle school outcomes. End of year assessments, which varied over the course of the study years, were examined for students of three preschool cohorts. Students included in the statewide study received free lunch all years and were enrolled in…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Preschool Children
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Direct linkEarnshaw, Valerie A.; Rosenthal, Lisa; Carroll-Scott, Amy; Peters, Susan M.; McCaslin, Catherine; Ickovics, Jeannette R. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2014
Experiencing bullying as a victim is associated with negative health and health behavior outcomes, including substance use, among adolescents. However, understandings of protective factors--factors that enhance adolescents' resilience to the negative consequences of bullying--remain limited. The current study investigates whether teacher…
Descriptors: Smoking, Bullying, Race, Correlation
Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore – Journal of Human Resources, 2009
This paper assesses whether school lunches contribute to childhood obesity. I employ two methods to isolate the causal impact of school lunches on obesity. First, using panel data, I ?nd that children who consume school lunches are more likely to be obese than those who brown bag their lunches even though they enter kindergarten with the same…
Descriptors: Obesity, Eligibility, Nutrition, Children
