Study: Breakfast in class doesn’t help students

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A new study to be published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management says government-provided breakfast in classrooms doesn’t help students learn, nor does it increase obesity.

“Our findings provide no evidence of hoped-for gains in academic performance, or of feared increases in obesity,” the study’s authors write. The study was authored by Sean Corcoran, Brian Elbel and Amy Schwartz, all with New York University.

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