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Kirksey, J. Jacob; Gottfried, Michael A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021
With the rise in the availability of absenteeism data, it is clear that students are missing a staggering amount of school. Policymakers have focused efforts on identifying school programs that might reduce absenteeism. This study examined whether implementing the program "Breakfast After-the-Bell" (BAB) might reduce school absenteeism.…
Descriptors: Attendance, Breakfast Programs, Program Effectiveness, Nutrition
Wilson, Penny – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2021
School nutrition programs are integral to academic success. To support the whole child, teachers must appreciate what role nutrition plays in academic success. Studies of food insecurity reveal there are degrees of severity. Although the key determinate of food security is poverty, employment is not necessarily a shield. One can eat and still be…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Security (Psychology), Diabetes
Eko, Leanne; Barkley, Wendy – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2019
State law (Revised Code of Washington [RCW] 28A.235.290) requires the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to report annually to the Legislature on the number of schools participating in United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). The report must identify barriers to participation and…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Low Income Students, Breakfast Programs, Lunch Programs
Chandrasekhar, Aparajita; Xie, Luyu; Mathew, Matthew S.; Fletcher, Julie G.; Craker, Kelsey; Parayil, Megin; Messiah, Sarah E. – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: Little is known about how school breakfast programs are associated with school attendance and academic performance. This study evaluated Dallas Independent School District's (DISD) breakfast after the bell (BATB) program that provides breakfast for both habitually tardy and non-tardy students on (1) academic performance and (2) student…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students
Borkowski, Artur; Ortiz Correa, Javier Santiago; Bundy, Donald A. P.; Burbano, Carmen; Hayashi, Chika; Lloyd-Evans, Edward; Neitzel, Jutta; Reuge, Nicolas – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
In 2019, 135 million people in 55 countries were in food crises or worse, and 2 billion people did not have regular access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food. COVID-19 has exacerbated these hardships and may result in an additional 121 million people facing acute food insecurity by the end of 2020. Further, since the beginning of the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Nutrition
Fix, Rebecca L.; Schaeffer, Cindy M.; Bohnenkamp, Jill H.; Hoover, Sharon – School Psychology Review, 2023
There are racial and ethnic disparities in use of out-of-school suspensions within the United States. The present study assessed for the presence of disproportionate suspension by race, special education status, and receipt of free or reduced cost meals using two separate metrics (risk ratios and raw differential representation); evaluated…
Descriptors: High School Students, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Blacks
Cassar, Erin McCrossan – Urban Education, 2022
The issue of school food and its role in the learning environment has been overlooked by educators, education researchers, and policy makers. This study uses observations and interviews in three high-poverty, urban schools to investigate how participants experience school food policy in their daily lives. Participants at all three schools believed…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Poverty, Hunger, Nutrition
Gaddis, Jennifer E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
Big corporations and food service companies are making millions of dollars from public school meal programs, often to the detriment of students' health. Jennifer Gaddis explains how government policies and funding shortfalls have affected what is served is school cafeterias. Common cost-cutting measures include serving cheap and easy-to-prepare…
Descriptors: Food Service, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, COVID-19
Morgan, Kelly; McConnon, Linda; Van Godwin, Jordan; Hawkins, Jemma; Bond, Amy; Fletcher, Adam – Journal of School Health, 2019
Objective: School summer holiday clubs in deprived areas of Wales were evaluated to examine opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity and explore delivery processes. Methods: Ten Food and Fun clubs participated in 2016. Quantitative data (child and parent surveys; N = 196, N = 84) assessed the opportunity to provide children with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Summer Programs, Holidays, Food
Contreras, Sharon; Spring, Larry; Padilla, Roberto; Williams, Angi – AASA, The School Superintendent's Association, 2019
AASA has always seen healthy eating in schools as a leadership issue. Meals are served in the cafeteria, vending machines dotted the hallways of schools, and sales of cookies, chips, candies, and other fundraisers took place all over the district. While many different people are "in charge" of these various forms of food…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Attitudes, Breakfast Programs, Educational Benefits
Kara Clifford Billings – Congressional Research Service, 2023
The child nutrition programs support meals and snacks served to children in schools, child care, summer programs, and other institutional settings in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. This report starts with an overview of child nutrition programs' funding structure and then provides detail on each program,…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Nutrition, Child Health
Thompson, Eleanor D. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
The Trump Administration's rollbacks in nutritional standards for school meals have been the subject of much criticism and the basis for a lawsuit. Research into food insecurity and public school meal quality shows that food security and high nutritional standards are essential to any efforts to improve both school equity and student performance.…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Public Schools
Belza, Haizea; Herrán, Elena; Anguera, M. Teresa – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2020
This study presents the results of a systematic, 3-month-long observation of the verbal and gestural interactions which took place between a preschool teacher and six children aged between 23 and 34 months during breakfast at Emmi Pikler preschool in Budapest. The aim was to analyze access to the conventional use of everyday tools during this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Teacher Student Relationship
Hearst, Mary O.; Jimbo-Llapa, Fanny; Grannon, Katherine; Wang, Qi; Nanney, Marilyn S.; Caspi, Caitlin E. – Journal of School Health, 2019
Background: Adolescents frequently miss breakfast which may impact cognitive, academic, and health outcomes. This analysis describes the effect of a trial to assess school level changes to increase breakfast consumption on grade point average (GPA). Methods: Sixteen rural Minnesota high schools were randomized to a policy and environmental change…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Nutrition, Grade Point Average, Food
Schroeder, Mary; Grannon, Kate; Shanafelt, Amy; Nanney, Marilyn S. – Journal of Extension, 2018
University of Minnesota (UMN) Extension has assisted schools in making policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes to improve the school food environment. UMN Extension's involvement in the Project breakFAST program demonstrates how Extension can provide training and technical assistance to support school staff in making PSE changes that…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Universities, Food Service, Technical Assistance