As the climate warms due to the burning of fossil fuels, heatwaves are lasting longer and reaching greater peaks as average temperatures rise. In turn, government authorities and public health experts across the world are grappling with whether to keep students learning in hot classrooms, or encourage them to stay home and keep cool.
Hena Khan, a grade nine student in Dhaka, has struggled to focus on her studies this week as temperatures surpassed 40 degrees Celsius in the capital city."There is no real education in schools in this punishing heat," she said. "Teachers can't teach, students can't concentrate. Rather, our lives are at risk.
Much of that impact disappeared in schools that had air conditioning, said study co-author Josh Goodman, an economist at Boston University.Somewhere between 40% and 60% of U.S. schools are thought to have at least partial air conditioning, according to various surveys.Schools that do not are typically found in lower income districts which already lag behind their wealthier counterparts academically. In the U.S.
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