Open AccessWhy nutritious meals matter in school
Author(s) -
Eleanor D. Thompson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
phi delta kappan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1940-6487
pISSN - 0031-7217
DOI - 10.1177/0031721720956847
Subject(s) - criticism , lawsuit , subject matter , equity (law) , food security , food standards , business , economic growth , political science , food safety , economics , law , agriculture , medicine , curriculum , pathology , ecology , biology
The Trump Administration’s rollbacks in nutritional standards for school meals have been the subject of much criticism and the basis for a lawsuit. Research into food insecurity and public school meal quality shows that food security and high nutritional standards are essential to any efforts to improve both school equity and student performance. Eleanor Thompson describes this research and makes recommendations for halting proposed rollbacks and providing more durable protections for the regulations that exist.
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