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Monique R. Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Obesity influences many adolescents, and a potential setting that can help with this health concern is schools. Schools can help raise awareness of adolescent obesity and promote healthier eating habits among adolescents. Therefore, researchers must determine if school food programs influence high school adolescents' behavior regarding the…
Descriptors: Obesity, Adolescents, Eating Habits, Lunch Programs
Stephanie Oudghiri – Rural Educator, 2024
As roughly 7.3 million students in rural school districts head back to school this fall, they remain largely unaware that the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) is due to expire on September 30, 2024 (Hartman et al., 2023). Enacted on December 20, 2018, and temporarily renewed in September 2023, this critical piece of legislation…
Descriptors: Food, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Nutrition
Toossi, Saied – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted access to school meal programs, putting children and adolescents at greater risk for food and nutrition insecurity. In response, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) waived restrictions on where free meal sites (FMS) operating through its summer meal programs could locate. This study assesses whether…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Lunch Programs, COVID-19
Larin, Kathryn A. – US Government Accountability Office, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers the school meal programs that provide nutritious, lowcost meals to about 30 million children each day, according to USDA fiscal year 2019 data. School food authorities participating in the National School Lunch Program or the School Breakfast Program must comply…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Food, Purchasing
Gurpinder Singh Lalli – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2024
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the paper draws on conceptions of culinary capital and socialisation to explore children's experiences of mealtime in one academy school. In this paper, the author argues how 'healthy eating' interventions have led to the neglect of the social significance of dining together. The paper highlights how children's…
Descriptors: Food, Cultural Capital, Socialization, Student Experience
Xolani Wycliff Zulu – Educational Research and Reviews, 2024
The purpose of the study was to explore the challenges experienced by teachers in their role in implementing the National School Nutrition Program in schools within the Harry Gwala District of KwaZulu-Natal. This article is extracted from a Ph.D. thesis that employed a qualitative research design, utilizing a sample of teachers who participate in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Teacher Role, Nutrition
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
Biing-Hwan Lin; Travis A. Smith; Joanne F. Guthrie – US Department of Agriculture, 2023
Since 2005, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) has recommended that whole grains comprise at least half of total grain consumption. This study used nationally representative food consumption datasets (spanning 1994-2018) to examine trends in whole-grain intakes before and after the establishment of this recommendation. Trends were examined…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Nutrition, Food Standards, Food Service
Linda Berggren; Maria Waling; Cecilia Olsson – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Previous research indicates that head teachers in Sweden frequently fail to see school lunch as part of the educational activities of a school. This study contributes to an understanding of how head teachers in Sweden perceive and experience current national policy intentions related to school lunch. Design: Qualitative inquiry.…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Food, School Activities, Administrators
Emily Gutierrez; Maggie Reeves; Ariella Meltzer; Victoria Nelson; Fanny Terrones – Urban Institute, 2024
Colorado's Healthy School Meals for All (HSMA) program provides free breakfast and lunch to all students, regardless of economic background, and aims to strengthen farm-to-school systems and school food service workers' pay. After unexpected increases in student participation, the program faced a significant budget shortfall that raised warning…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Lunch Programs, Budgeting, Educational Policy
Laird, Susan – Values and Ethics in Educational Administration, 2021
Recent studies of school gardens (Simon et al, 2015; Williams and Brown, 2012) and of the National School Lunch Program (Pringle, 2013; Levine, 2008; Ralston et al, 2008) have posed value questions for school leadership and policy, about production and distribution of school food. This review of the new educational studies scholarship on school…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Food Service, Ethics, Values
Byker Shanks, Carmen; Stenberg, Molly; Bark, Katie; Izumi, Betty; Hoff, Casey; Parks, Courtney A. – Health Education Journal, 2023
Introduction: Fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption is low among adolescents, and waste of these foods is high in school cafeterias. The objective of this research was to determine the impact of behavioural economic strategies and structural lunchroom changes on FV selection and waste in high-school lunch programmes using the collaborative efforts…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Food, Eating Habits, Wastes
Askelson, Natoshia; Ryan, Grace; Brady, Patrick; Meier, Cristian L.; Delger, Patti; Scheidel, Carrie – Journal of School Nursing, 2022
The National School Lunch Program provides nutritious and inexpensive lunches, but low participation and food waste are challenges in many schools. Interventions aim to improve participation in the program, but little is known about how students' perceptions affect their participation. This study explored how middle school students in a rural…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Dining Facilities, Lunch Programs
Reisinger, Lily; Dhillon, Sarah – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2022
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in school closures and required school nutrition directors to shift their methods of executing the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The procurement of items, the composition of meals, and meal delivery were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Breakfast Programs
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