The Nation - News from May 3, 1988
A school breakfast program for poor children improves academic performance and reduces tardiness, according to a study conducted last year in Lawrence, Mass. The study, to be released today at a meeting of the Ambulatory Pediatric Assn. in Washington, was based on a comparison of 335 third- through sixth-graders in Lawrence public schools who participated in a breakfast program in 1987 with 688 who did not.
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