Numerous published studies show that academic achievement among students
who eat school breakfast tends to improve, especially in vocabulary, math, and standardized tests.
Research shows that students
who eat school breakfast are more likely to maintain a healthy weight, drink more milk, and eat more fruit daily!
Research shows that students who
eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and achieve a whopping 17.5 percent higher score in math, according to a new report from Share Our Strength.
It seems to me that there's an obvious solution to this problem, one my child's elementary school principal has employed from the start: if parents don't want their child
eating the school breakfast for any reason, they have the option to have the child's breakfast card removed from the stack of available meal cards; without the card, no meal can be obtained.
Lack of awareness about the School Breakfast Program, lack of time to eat breakfast, late bus schedules, and stigma associated with the program are some of the reasons students do
n't eat school breakfast when it is served in the cafeteria.
Here in my own district of Houston ISD, for example, it's entirely possible for an elementary - aged child to consume 39 grams — almost 10 teaspoons — of added sugar just
by eating school breakfast.
Thanks to the commitment of teachers, principals, parents and community leaders, along with No Kid Hungry's national and local partners across the country, 3 million more kids are
eating school breakfast since 2010.
FRAC measures School Breakfast Program participation by comparing the number of low - income children who
eat school breakfast with those who receive school lunch.
Yet, according to a recent FRAC report on school breakfast in Ohio, only 56 % of children who receive a free or reduced - price lunch are
also eating school breakfast.
More than half (or 54 %) of students who qualify for free or reduced lunch in Massachusetts public schools do not
eat school breakfast on a given school day, ranking Massachusetts as the 43rd state in low income student school breakfast participation.
While about 22 % ofall students in all Maryland
schools eat school breakfast, 66 % of all students in MMFA funded schools participate in the School Breakfast Program a threefold increase.
Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign reported in 2013 that on average, students who
eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests; when combined, these factors translate into a student being twenty percent more likely to graduate high school.
Most importantly, given the almost 14 million kids
who eat school breakfast every day, I'm hopeful that the AHA recommendation, along with the new DGA on added sugar, will eventually make insanely sugary school breakfasts like this one (offered in my district before recent reforms were instituted) a thing of the past:
A second strategy to raise awareness and encourage Nebraskans to
eat school breakfast is a «Breakfast Challenge.»
When students
eat school breakfast it can help decrease visits to the school nurse, tardiness, and absences, while improving behavior, attendance, concentration, standardized test scores and more.
These are just a few examples of how breakfast - in - the - classroom has been used as a creative tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardiness and absenteeism, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who
eat school breakfast!
But, with little change in the wide participation gap between
those eating school breakfast (12 million) and school lunch (31 million), it's an important research report that can serve as a cornerstone in redoubled efforts to make new ground in closing that gap.
Eating school breakfast can protect children from the risk of obesity - related diseases like diabetes.
Even if they have already had breakfast at home, kids who
eat school breakfasts are less likely to be overweight or obese than those who don't, finds a study from groups at U. Connecticut and Yale.
How did you meet the challenge of encouraging kids to
eat school breakfast — and promoting this important meal program to parents, principals, teachers, the media and other community stakeholders?
National studies show that students who
eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight
My district's cafeteria «a la carte» offerings were generally dismal (think «Frito Pie» and artificially - colored slushies), and students
eating school breakfast were required to take a daily package of sugary animal crackers — for the iron content in the fortified white flour.
More kids are
eating school breakfast than ever before according to our partners at the Food Research & Action Center.
These are just a few examples of where breakfast - in - the - classroom has become a tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardies and absences, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who
eat school breakfast!
These are just a few examples of how breakfast - in - the - classroom has been creatively by administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardiness and absenteeism, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who
eat school breakfast!
Fact 1: Students who
eat school breakfast have improved attendance and test scores, and are more likely to graduate from high school.
If SNS put even a fraction of that effort into community engagement around getting more kids to
eat school breakfast, for example, it would yield immediate benefits for the program.
Findings from Illinois, Kentucky, and Michigan, where school districts first implemented the option in the 2011 - 2012 school year, show ongoing growth in the number of schools choosing community eligibility and a striking increase in the number of students
eating school breakfast and lunch.
When students
eat school breakfast it can help decrease visits to the school nurse, tardiness, and absences, while improving behavior, attendance, concentration, standardized test scores and more.
Expanding the School Breakfast Program: On average, students who
eat school breakfast have been shown to achieve 17.5 % higher scores on standardized math tests and attend 1.5 more days of school per year (No Kid Hungry).
More kids are
eating school breakfast than ever before according to our partners at the Food Research & Action Center.
Facts from research articles demonstrating that
eating school breakfast is beneficial to student academic improvement and overall health.
A second strategy to raise awareness and encourage Nebraskans to
eat school breakfast is a «Breakfast Challenge.»
The study concluded that
eating school breakfast and school lunch every day by U.S. schoolchildren was associated with healthier dietary intakes.