...meals, can we honestly expect poor children to compete successfully with their better fed classmates? While parents and educators have always known that...active, less attentive and less able to concentrate. Hence reading ability, verbal skills and motor skills suffer. In another recent report, Dr. Alan Meyers...

...meals, can we honestly expect poor children to compete successfully with their better-fed classmates? While parents and educators have always known that...ability to achieve in the educational setting has been well-documented only recently. According to the study released by the National Educational Association...

...households as compared to 48 percent of those eating school lunches. US Department of Agriculture (USDA) studies show that poor children depend on these meals...active, less attentive and less able to concentrate. Hence reading ability, verbal skills and motor skills suffer. In another recent report, Dr. Alan Meyers...

...National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs. Recently these programs have taken on added importance. While parents and educators have always known that...educational setting has been well documented only recently. This has occurred at the same time as the number of children living in poverty has increased by almost...

...National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs. Recently these programs have taken on added importance. While parents and educators have always known that...educational setting has been well documented only recently. This has occurred at the same time as the number of children living in poverty has increased. Between...

...is threatened by nations whose workforces outperform ours and whose schoolchildren outachieve ours. While parents and educators have always known that...educational setting has been well documented only recently. At a time when child poverty is on the rise — between 1979 and 1990 chUd poverty in the United States...

...high-skillcd-well-educatcd workforce capable of successfully competing in the international marketplace. While parents and educators have always known that...educational setting has been well documented only recently. A study conducted by Dr. Alan Meyers of Boston City Hospital and Amy Sampson of the Tufts University...