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Download full textCrawford, Claire; Edwards, Amy; Farquharson, Christine; Greaves, Ellen; Trevelyan, Grace; Wallace, Emma; White, Clarissa – Education Endowment Foundation, 2016
The Magic Breakfast project provided 106 schools with support and resources to offer a free, universal, before-school breakfast club, including to all Year 2 and Year 6 pupils. The aim of the project was to improve attainment outcomes by increasing the number of children who ate a healthy breakfast. The schools in the project were schools in…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students, Breakfast Programs, Intervention
Direct linkImberman, Scott A.; Kugler, Adriana D. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2014
Many schools have recently experimented with moving breakfast from the cafeteria to the classroom. We examine whether such a program increases achievement, grades, and attendance rates. We exploit quasi-random timing of program implementation that allows for a difference-in-differences identification strategy. We find that providing breakfast in…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Academic Achievement, Grades (Scholastic), Attendance Patterns
Imberman, Scott A.; Kugler, Adriana D. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
In response to low take-up, many public schools have experimented with moving breakfast from the cafeteria to the classroom. We examine whether such a program increases performance as measured by standardized test scores, grades and attendance rates. We exploit quasi-random timing of program implementation that allows for a…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Breakfast Programs, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement
Frisvold, David E. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2012
This paper investigates the impact of the School Breakfast Program (SBP) on cognitive achievement. The SBP is a federal entitlement program that offers breakfast to any student, including free breakfast for any low-income student, who attends a school that participates in the program. To increase the availability of the SBP, many states mandate…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Program Effectiveness, Cognitive Development, Federal Programs
Jacob, Robin; Zhu, Pei; Bloom, Howard – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
This article provides practical guidance for researchers who are designing studies that randomize groups to measure the impacts of educational interventions. The article (a) provides new empirical information about the values of parameters that influence the precision of impact estimates (intraclass correlations and R[superscript 2] values) and…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Educational Research, Intervention
Neeland, Sheryl – 1993
To determine the effects of a hot breakfast program on elementary school students' academic achievement, absenteeism, and lateness behaviors, a study was undertaken of standardized achievement test scores for 23 second-, fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at an elementary school participating in a district-wide breakfast program. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Breakfast Programs, Correlation
