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Direct linkViadero, Debra – Education Week, 2006
When education researchers want to measure the collective poverty level in a school, they typically use the same yardstick: the percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced rate meals under the federal school lunch program. But dissatisfaction with that indicator is prompting some researchers to cast about for better ways to gauge the…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Lunch Programs, School Choice, Poverty
