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Download full textBarnes, Roberta Ott – 1988
This report describes the analyses of student participation in two school nutrition programs, the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). Data were collected from students and their families during the 1983-84 school year as part of the National Evaluation of the School Nutrition Programs (NESNP). Each program…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Carswell, Lorraine; White, William F. – 1983
To assess the impact of economic deprivation on students' reading scores in standardized tests, the vocabulary and reading comprehension portions of the California Achievement Test and the Degree of Reading Power test were admininstered to two groups of eighth grade students--60 students participating in the federal free lunch program and 60…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
Gallagher, Michael P. – 1993
The relationship between success on proficiency tests and poverty has been widely discussed. This study explores the use of a neighborhood indicator of socioeconomic status based on school lunch participation of elementary school students in that neighborhood, and examines the relationship of poverty to success on a high school proficiency test in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Correlation, Disadvantaged Youth
