{"id":2104,"date":"2020-01-27T22:47:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T22:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2020-01-27T22:47:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T22:47:01","slug":"installing-air-filters-in-classrooms-has-surprisingly-large-educational-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2104","title":{"rendered":"Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The impact of the air filters is strikingly large given what a simple change we\u2019re talking about. The school district didn\u2019t reengineer the school buildings or make dramatic education reforms; they just installed $700 commercially available filters that you could plug into any room in the country. But it\u2019s consistent with a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2019\/12\/11\/20996968\/air-pollution-cognitive-impact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">growing literature on the cognitive impact of air pollution<\/a>, which finds that everyone from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/conference.iza.org\/conference_files\/environ_2019\/palacios_j24419.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chess players<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/abs\/10.1086\/698728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">baseball umpires<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w19944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">workers in a pear-packing factory<\/a>&nbsp;suffer deteriorations in performance when the air is more polluted.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Gilraine\u2019s result holds up to further scrutiny, he will have identified what\u2019s probably the single most cost-effective education policy intervention \u2014 one that should have particularly large benefits for low-income children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while it\u2019s too hasty to draw sweeping conclusions on the basis of one study, it would be incredibly cheap to have a few cities experiment with installing air filters in some of their schools to get more data and draw clearer conclusions about exactly how much of a difference this makes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/1\/8\/21051869\/indoor-air-pollution-student-achievement\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/1\/8\/21051869\/indoor-air-pollution-student-achievement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The impact of the air filters is strikingly large given what a simple change we\u2019re talking about. The school district didn\u2019t reengineer the school buildings or make dramatic education reforms; they just installed $700 commercially available filters that you could plug into any room in the country. But it\u2019s consistent with a growing literature on the cognitive impact of air pollution, which finds that everyone from chess players to baseball umpires to workers in a pear-packing factory suffer deteriorations in performance when the air is more polluted.<\/p>\n<p>If Gilraine\u2019s result holds up to further scrutiny, he will have identified what\u2019s probably the single most cost-effective education policy intervention \u2014 one that should have particularly large benefits for low-income children.<\/p>\n<p>And while it\u2019s too hasty to draw sweeping conclusions on the basis of one study, it would be incredibly cheap to have a few cities experiment with installing air filters in some of their schools to get more data and draw clearer conclusions about exactly how much of a difference this makes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[358,356,359,357],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-air-filters","tag-education","tag-pollution","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}