Global warming will affect where humans live, what foods we can eat and when we can safely go outside. However, a recent report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress has revealed that climate change might also affect student’s test scores. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00Global warming will affect where humans live, what foods we can eat, and when we can safely go outside.
00:05However, a recent report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress has revealed
00:10climate change might also affect students' test scores.
00:13Assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation,
00:18Ji-Sung Park, said about the metrics, quote,
00:20When we look at how more days above 85 and more days above 90 in the school year, it affects test scores.
00:26We find that it actually reduces the rate of learning.
00:28What they found was that amongst 13-year-olds, the average reading scores are the lowest they have been since 2004,
00:34and math test scores are the lowest since 1990.
00:37Park was also part of a study looking at temperatures and learning around the globe,
00:41finding that higher temperatures not only affect test scores on test days,
00:44but also broader learning over longer periods of high heat.
00:47With the study finding that, as usual, minorities and lower-income kids see the worst effects,
00:52as they possibly don't have as much air conditioning or other cooling access either at home or at school.
00:58And after at least 100 million Americans were facing extreme heat warnings at some point during this summer,
01:03experts say they only expect that to get worse.