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...Cristo Rey students exude confidence. When Gates asked a lunchroom table full of juniors if they planned to go the college, the response was a polite and respectful version of well, duh. For the past four years, every Cristo Rey graduate has been accepted into at least one college. Over 82% are in college or have completed it. The school's winning formula has been replicated in 11 other cities, and seven new Cristo Rey schools are slated to open in September, six of them with support from the Gates Foundation...
...have selected the transept for food service only after all the more appropriate alternatives, such as the Science Center, had been ruled out, but perhaps it can apply some further imagination to the problem. The “hard marble floors” which make the transept a poor lunchroom reflect the marble plaques bearing the names of the dead, and the sooner fly-by flies on and the space again honors their memory, the better for everyone. HARRY R. LEWIS ’68 Cambridge, Mass. October 9, 2006 The writer is McKay professor of computer science...
...understand exploding obesity rates among the very young, researchers are looking into the critical period between breast or bottle and the school lunchroom, when lifelong food habits take shape. During the first year of life, experts say, babies self-regulate how much they eat; infants who aren't hungry will refuse another swallow, no matter how much parents try to feed them. But in the second year, babies, like adults, begin responding less to hunger pangs and more to social cues: Is Mommy giving me more? Has everyone else at the table had seconds? I want to snack in front...
...lunch hour on a luminous spring day at Berkeley High School's open campus--the perfect time to stroll to Extreme Pizza on nearby Shattuck Avenue, grab a Coke, order some pizza heaped with sausage and sit in the California sun. But in Berkeley High's lunchroom, lines of students are waiting patiently for--get this--cafeteria food. The longest line--now get this--is for salad. "This is only my second time eating school lunch," says junior Fennis Brown, 17. "I've always been put off by cafeteria food. But when I saw a friend eating it, I thought...
...bans are easy compared with changing how kids eat. How do you eliminate junk yet create meals that stay within tight budgets and satisfy fickle tastes? To find out, TIME went behind the lunchroom counter in two communities: Berkeley, Calif., where a well-funded program is converting students like Brown; and Shawnee, Okla., where financial and cultural pressures mean that change will come more slowly...