Sentences with phrase «hungry children in a classroom»

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The toolkit opens up with fact sheets on the importance of breakfast, particularly for children; hungry children act out and have difficulty focusing, and breakfast in the classroom is an excellent tool to address those issues.

It illustrates that people are hungry for an alternative to the status quo where content is increasingly brought through computers rather than teachers, academic learning is being pushed down to younger and younger children, and the focus in the classroom is «teaching to the test.»

I also believe that if hungry children have access to school breakfast, school lunch, and after - school snack (if not also supper, as we have here in Houston at some particularly impoverished schools), then even that sort of food in the classroom might not be necessary.

«No classroom is better when a child shows up to school hungry and no amount of government savings is worth a child in bed hungry at night.»

Educators have long known that children who are hungry and undernourished, who fear for their safety in neighborhoods and homes, or who have unmet health or mental health needs will find it difficult to devote 100 percent of their attention to classroom learning.

Research reaching back to the 1950s agrees that hungry and malnourished children have shorter attention spans, cause more disruptions in the classroom, and score lower on achievement tests.

Three out of five teachers say they have children in their classrooms that regularly come to school hungry.1 These students are unable to concentrate, often have headaches and stomach aches, and demonstrate poor academic performance.