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Ghana’s school kids go hungry after caterers quit amid soaring food prices

Education

Many students who rely on the national free lunch program risk going hungry after Ghana’s school caterers went on strike. 

Schoolchildren in Haryana, India eat rice and kadhi, a curry made with onions, garlic, yogurt and fritters made with chick pea flour.

India’s school lunch program may be imperfect, but it deserves credit for feeding millions

Lifestyle & Belief
Cooks Beddo and Bimla, make rotis (a wheat flat bread) at a government school in a village called Bawani Khera, in south central Haryana. The menu for the day is roti and a vegetable dish.

Here’s why kids — and parents — in India love the country’s school lunch program

Lifestyle & Belief

Investigation continues into school meals in India that killed 22 students

Health & Medicine

Congress acts quickly to make sure pizza remains a vegetable in school lunches

Global Politics
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Teacher goes undercover, anonymously blogs about a year of eating school lunch

Health & Medicine

Sarah Wu, a teacher in Chicago Public Schools, ate school lunch for a year and blogged about it anonymously. She’s revealed herself and is now out with a new book, Fed Up With Lunch.

Junk food marketing for healthy school lunches

Business, Economics and Jobs

What can schools learn from fast-food restaurants to get kids to eat healthy lunches?

Flash Forward: Childhood Obesity and the Future of School Lunches

A 2011 University of Michigan study of more than a thousand middle school students found that those who regularly ate school lunches were 29 percent more likely to be obese than those who brought lunch from home. Of course, what a child eats for lunch is just one of many factors that determines whether he […]

School meals are healthier, but cost families more

The federal government wants to make school lunches healthier  – which also may mean raising the cost for students in certain areas. The White House’s child nutrition bill suggests costs go up by 10 cents at the most, but some places are raising prices more than that. Some people are worried that this might generate some […]

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Where Food Comes From

A program in Hartford, Connecticut aims to connect school children to nutrition by having students visit the farms that provide produce to their school cafeteria. Tom Verde reports on this new school lunch and education program.

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