Prior-year heat exposure reduces learning, with about 3 times greater impact on Black and Hispanic/Latine students than White students¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r1 · q3
Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Cumulative heat exposure reduces learning measured by test scores, and air conditioning can mitigate the effect. → Perez 2024 q3 i? Heat exposure from the previous year has about a 3 times greater impact on Black and Hispanic/Latine students' learning than on White students' learning. → Perez 2024 (2)

Evidence¶

Perez 2024¶

Perez, Alyssa. (2024). How school facilities impact student health and performance: advancing equity with green infrastructure. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED655919

q3 · i? · review · r1

The brief attributes this to a 2019 National Bureau of Economic Research causal study (Goodman et al., 2018), which also found air conditioning could effectively mitigate the negative impacts.

"cumulative heat exposure from the year prior (and even multiple years prior) reduces students’ rate of learning as measured by standardized test scores"

Perez 2024 (2)¶

Perez, Alyssa. (2024). How school facilities impact student health and performance: advancing equity with green infrastructure. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED655919

q3 · i? · review · r1

Same causal study as reported in the brief; disparities appeared tied to school investment in HVAC systems and to the geographic distribution of racially marginalized students in hotter locations.

"heat exposure from the previous year has about a 3 times greater impact on Black and Hispanic/Latine students’ learning than it does on White students’ learning"

Discussion¶

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