scholarly journals Impact of The Community Eligibility Provision of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act on Student Nutrition, Behavior, and Academic Outcomes: 2011–2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 (9) ◽  
pp. 1405-1410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelie A. Hecht ◽  
Keshia M. Pollack Porter ◽  
Lindsey Turner
Keyword(s):  
Test Scores ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
High Poverty ◽  
High Poverty Schools ◽  
Disciplinary Referrals ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Nutrition Behavior ◽  
Weight Outcomes ◽  
Promotion Rates

The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows high-poverty schools participating in US Department of Agriculture meal programs to offer universal free breakfast and lunch. Authorized as part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, CEP became available to eligible schools nationwide in 2014. Emerging evidence suggests that schools that provide universal free meals experience positive impacts on student nutrition, behavior, and academic performance. In particular, schools benefit from increased meal participation rates. There is mixed evidence of impacts on test scores and attendance, and limited but promising results showing improvements in weight outcomes, on-time grade promotion rates, disciplinary referrals, and food security. In this article, we summarize the growing evidence base and suggest policy approaches to increase the use of CEP by eligible schools.

scholarly journals ‘It’s not about punitive’: exploring how early-career teachers in high-poverty schools respond to critical incidents

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Lampert ◽  
Bruce Burnett ◽  
Barbara Comber ◽  
Angela Ferguson ◽  
Naomi Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Critical Incidents ◽  
Early Career ◽  
High Poverty ◽  
High Poverty Schools ◽  
Early Career Teachers ◽  
Career Teachers

scholarly journals Value Added of Teachers in High-Poverty Schools and Lower-Poverty Schools

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Sass ◽  
Jane Hannaway ◽  
Zeyu Xu ◽  
David Figlio ◽  
Li Feng
Keyword(s):  
Value Added ◽  
High Poverty ◽  
High Poverty Schools

Educating Teachers for High-Poverty Schools

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Burnett ◽  
Jo Lampert
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
High Poverty ◽  
High Poverty Schools ◽  
Educational Disadvantage ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
High Poverty Students

A great deal of scholarship informs the idea that specific teacher preparation is required for working in high-poverty schools. Many teacher-education programs do not focus exclusively on poverty. However, a growing body of research emphasizes how crucial it is that teachers understand the backgrounds and communities in which young people and their families live, especially if they are to teach equitably, without bias, and with a critical understanding of historical educational disadvantage. Research on teacher education for high-poverty schools is largely associated with social-justice education and premised on two key assumptions. The first is that teachers do make a difference and should be encouraged to see themselves as agents of change. The second is that without nuanced knowledge of poverty and disadvantage, and especially its intersection with race, teachers are prepared as though all students and all communities have equal social advantage. Through targeted teacher education, social justice teachers aquire the knowledge, skills and attributes to understand what they can and cannot do. Teachers with strong communities of practice and agency can resist the idea that they can eradicate poverty on their own, but can enact teaching in ways that are equitable and respectful, culturally responsive and safe. It is increasingly possible to observe how debates propose or challenge how preservice teachers should learn about high-poverty contexts. There are also numerous models, globally, of what works in preparing teachers for high-poverty schools; however, providing evidence or proving how specialized teacher preparation affects the educational outcomes of high-poverty students is difficult.

Reading Fluency as a Predictor of Reading Proficiency in Low-Performing, High-Poverty Schools

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott K. Baker ◽  
Keith Smolkowski ◽  
Rachell Katz ◽  
Hank Fien ◽  
John R. Seeley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
High Poverty ◽  
High Poverty Schools
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