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Download full textGreenberg, Erica – Urban Institute, 2018
Free and reduced-price lunch status has long been used as a proxy measure for student poverty. This brief offers a short history of school lunch and its recent decline as a measure of economic disadvantage. It then provides a primer on "direct certification," the most promising alternative, which links student enrollment with public…
Descriptors: Poverty, Lunch Programs, Low Income Students, Economically Disadvantaged
Rich, Leslie – American Education, 1978
Describes how the elementary school at Oakham, Massachusetts, improved nutrition habits, increased student participation, and reduced waste in its lunch program through a program called MUNCH (Multiple Unit of Nutritional Care and Health). MUNCH involves family-style meals instead of cafeteria lines, expanded nutrition education, and periodic…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Dining Facilities, Eating Habits, Elementary Education
Whitcomb, Emeline S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
This bulletin identifies and discusses several outstanding achievements in home-economics education during the biennium. Individual sections explore: (1) Findings of statistical study of home economics in the public high schools; (2) Curriculum making; (3) Child development and parental education, including higher education, secondary education,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Child Development, Home Economics, High Schools
