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How school lunch could improve when classrooms are full again

  • Written by Jennifer Gaddis, Assistant Professor of Civil Society & Community Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
imageSchool lunch is a lot less fun during a pandemic.Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

The COVID-19 pandemic has completely upended school lunches, like just about everything else for students. Once schools turned into virtual learning platforms, they found creative ways to feed students, including distributing meals at outdoor pickup...

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