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Thurston Domina; Leah Clark; Vitaly Radsky; Renuka Bhaskar – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows high-poverty schools to offer free meals to all students regardless of household income. Conceptualizing universal meal provision as a strategy to alleviate stigma associated with school meals, we hypothesize that CEP implementation reduces the incidence of suspensions, particularly for students…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Nutrition, Welfare Services, Child Health
Gurpinder Singh Lalli – European Journal of Education, 2024
This paper presents ethnographic work conducted to investigate how notions of culinary capital have the potential to shape the everyday experiences of children during mealtime in school. Children's early experiences with mealtimes and food are critical determinants for eating behaviour over the life course. The paper presents an account of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food, Eating Habits, Foods Instruction
Zerrougui, Riad; Ziani, Khaoula; Saadat, Fadhila; Maamir, Narimane – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Building on the achievements of the programs of the African Union Commission on school nutrition on the one hand, and striving to achieve the quality standards approved by the United Nations included in the program "Changing the education", and through a review of the health and nutrition literature, using a content analysis guide to…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Foreign Countries, Nutrition, Child Health
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
Morris, Steve D. – US Government Accountability Office, 2022
USDA helps millions of children from low-income households access healthy meals by purchasing food, including seafood, for the NSLP. USDA-purchased foods represent about 15 to 20 percent of the food served in the NSLP. According to the DGA, programs, such as the NSLP, can play an essential role in providing access to healthy meals. This can help…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Food, Nutrition, Government Role
Catheryn A. Orihuela; Retta Evans; Sylvie Mrug – Grantee Submission, 2024
Background: Despite the establishment of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) in 2010, child nutrition programs continue to experience challenges impacting participation. Prior qualitative studies have explored how to reduce barriers to implementation of these programs in schools, but few studies have examined attitudes held by students, who…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Child Health, Federal Legislation, Nutrition
Catheryn A. Orihuela; Retta Evans; Sylvie Mrug – American Journal of Health Education, 2024
Background: Despite the establishment of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) in 2010, child nutrition programs continue to experience challenges impacting participation. Prior qualitative studies have explored how to reduce barriers to implementation of these programs in schools, but few studies have examined attitudes held by students, who…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Federal Legislation, Child Health, Nutrition
Rosen, Roline Milfort; Taylor, Jeffrey; Baier, Kevin; May, Laurie – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2022
Purpose/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine and discuss common challenges associated with obtaining the correct school meal benefits level from the National School Lunch and School Breakfast program application process. The findings provide insights and policy recommendations for improving school meal processes and reducing the…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Barriers
Heather Francis Terral – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Introduction: Education is a social determinant of health, and its intersection with incarceration is a powerful nexus for well-being of students. Whether policies specific to student well-being are associated with exclusionary discipline, a documented risk factor for incarceration, is unknown. This study has three aims: (1) to identify whether…
Descriptors: School Policy, Wellness, Discipline, Suspension
Adams, Elizabeth L.; Raynor, Hollie A.; Thornton, Laura M.; Mazzeo, Suzanne E.; Bean, Melanie K. – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Background: The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides >30 million meals to children daily; however, the specific nutrient composition of NSLP-selected and consumed meals for students from lower income and racial/ethnic minoritized backgrounds is unknown. Aims: To quantify the nutrients in school lunch selection and consumption among…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Eating Habits, Nutrition
Kaitlyn E. Elgart – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation I use modern microeconomic methods to examine the impact of K-12 education policy interventions on student outcomes. In the first chapter I explore how increased funding for school policing and sentiment surrounding school policing can have downstream effects on student discipline, and how these effects vary by student and…
Descriptors: Economics, Economic Factors, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education
Michah W. Rothbart; Amy Ellen Schwartz; Emily Gutierrez – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 allows school districts to provide free meals to all students if over 40 percent of them are directly certified as free-meal eligible. While emerging evidence documents positive effects on student behavior and academics, critics worry that CEP has unintended…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Child Health, Federal Legislation, Lunch Programs
Williams, Rita; Hickman, Greg; Leggett, Carmen; Ricketts, Diane; Bryant, Misty; Gwaltney, Kesia – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2022
Poverty has an enormous impact on children and their success in school. Children with low socioeconomic status often perform poorly in reading. Poor reading skills often lead to truancy, low rates of high school graduation, low-paying jobs, and cycles of illiteracy in generations of families. Secondary data was collected from the Tennessee…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Low Income Students, Lunch Programs
Kaur, Sarbjit – Online Submission, 2021
The IBSA forum is an important collaboration of India-Brazil-South Africa to address the social developmental challenges of developing countries through South-South Cooperation. All three countries share same colonial history and at present have developing economies and struggling to provide best public services to their citizens through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Developing Nations, Barriers
Vericker, Tracy C.; Gearing, Maeve E.; Kim, Sharon D. – Journal of School Health, 2019
Background: In response to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, the US Department Agriculture updated the nutrition standards for school meals to improve nutrition-related health outcomes for children. This study assesses the association between implementation of the updated nutrition standards and child weight. Methods: A quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Standards, Health Promotion, Body Weight