00:00 Global warming will affect where humans live, what foods we can eat, and when we can safely
00:04 go outside.
00:05 However, a recent report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress has revealed
00:10 climate change might also affect students' test scores.
00:13 Assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation,
00:17 Ji-Sung Park, said about the metrics, "When we look at how more days above 85 and more
00:22 days above 90 in the school year, it affects test scores.
00:25 We find that it actually reduces the rate of learning."
00:28 What they found was that amongst 13-year-olds, the average reading scores are the lowest
00:32 they have been since 2004, and math test scores are the lowest since 1990.
00:37 Park was also part of a study looking at temperatures and learning around the globe, finding that
00:41 higher temperatures not only affect test scores on test days, but also broader learning over
00:46 longer periods of high heat, with the study finding that as usual, minorities and lower-income
00:51 kids see the worst effects, as they possibly don't have as much air conditioning or other
00:55 cooling access either at home or at school.
00:58 Even after at least 100 million Americans were facing extreme heat warnings at some
01:01 point during the summer, experts say they only expect that to get worse.
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