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Method and theory in school breakfast program evaluation

In order to compare and evaluate a school breakfast program impact and discrimination memory and attention repertories on urban and rural children. A study was done 300 rural children were randomly chosed to have breakfast and 150 didn´t have breakfast were evaluated and compared to 300 urban children who were randomly chose of extreme poverty marginal to have breakfast and 150 that didn´t have breakfast. A designed test to evaluate attention and memory shows that in urban children do not exist differences between measures of the behavior. Rural children improve their time and performance. It was found differences on breakfast impact based on nutrimental status. The rural children got more benefits than the urban children with the program.


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