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While it’s certainly important to understand the academic skills of these incoming kinder students, it’s just as critical to measure physical well-being and social and emotional development. Let’s take a closer look at how several states are rising to the challenge.

A new rule proposed by the Agriculture Department intended to tighten access to food stamps could cost more than 500,000 children free school lunch meals. A healthy and balanced diet has been tied to student success and achievement by several studies, and critics of the change worry the loss of school meals would negatively affect the children’s academic performance and health. Read this story and more in this week’s EdNews Round Up.

In the 2017-18 school year, about 200,000 more students qualified for free summer lunches compared to the prior year, but only 14% of total eligible students actually received them. Read more about this story, and more stories related to the discussion around school lunches in this topical edition of the EdNews Round Up.

The 2019 installment of the annual International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference wound down Wednesday afternoon as attendees filed into Hall A at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Convention Center for a final round of keynotes. You can read all about what you missed at ISTE, plus stories on the latest student loan forgiveness idea, Yale’s most popular class, and more in this week’s EdNews Round Up.