"BackPack" Food Programs Linked to Higher Test Scores for School Children. National Issue Brief #155

Autor/inn/en	Kurtz, Michael D.; Conway, Karen S.; Mohr, Robert D.
Institution	University of New Hampshire, Carsey School of Public Policy
Titel	"BackPack" Food Programs Linked to Higher Test Scores for School Children. National Issue Brief #155
Quelle	(2021), (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Food; Security (Psychology); Hunger; Economically Disadvantaged; Program Evaluation; School Community Relationship; Correlation; Academic Achievement; Outcomes of Education; Reading Tests; Mathematics Tests; Scores; Elementary School Students; Achievement Gains; Eligibility; North Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensmittel; Security; Psychology; Sicherheit; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Korrelation; Schulleistung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Lesetest; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Eignung
Abstract	Nationwide, over half a million children live in households that report very low food security among children, meaning a child is not eating enough, going hungry, skipping a meal, or not eating for a full day because the household can't afford food. School meals fill an important gap in meeting household food demand during the week but cannot meet needs outside of school hours. To mitigate food insecurity on days when free school meals are unavailable, foodbanks have partnered with schools to create weekend feeding, or "BackPack," programs that provide children with a bag of nonperishable food to nourish them over the weekend. This brief summarizes a recently published article which aimed to understand how these BackPack programs relate to academic success. This research uses data from Northwestern North Carolina tracking the first adoptions and subsequent rapid growth of the BackPack program across schools there. Participation data is combined with restricted administrative student and school data, which allowed the authors to observe how economically disadvantaged students in schools with and without such programs performed on end-of-grade tests in reading and mathematics. Results provide strong evidence that the introduction of the BackPack program resulted in increased end-of-grade reading test scores for economically disadvantaged primary school students. [This brief presents findings from: Kurtz, M. D., Conway, K. S., & Mohr, R. D. (2020). Weekend feeding ("BackPack") programs and student outcomes. "Economics of Education Review," "79."] (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Carsey School of Public Policy. Huddleston Hall, 73 Main Street, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824. Tel: 603-862-2821; Fax: 603-862-3878. e-mail: carsey.school@unh.edu; Web site: http://carsey.unh.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01