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Helping High School Students Succeed Academically By Meeting Their More Basic Needs, Karen Eyler Martin
Helping High School Students Succeed Academically By Meeting Their More Basic Needs, Karen Eyler Martin
Theses and Dissertations
In this action research, I seek to show the connection between breakfast consumption and student academic achievement. Students skip breakfast for a variety of reasons, including not allowing enough time and not having enough resources for it. Others eat what they can obtain, including snack foods that are highly processed. In addition, school districts have gotten away from making their meals from scratch, and instead, use a third-party catering service that often serves food that is cheap and easy to heat up, which often means it is highly processed and does not have the same nutritional content as whole foods. …