Halifax Regional Police release Dartmouth suspect’s name and photo | SaltWire #news #novascotia - 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.
Heat could make that worse, widening learning gaps between tropical developing nations and developed countries, experts told Reuters, and even between rich and poor districts in wealthy countries. But sending children to overheated schools could make them sick. On Monday, one day after reopening schools which had been closed last week due to heat, Bangladeshi authorities again closed all primary schools and educational institutions in nearly half of all districts as temperatures reached 43C .Even if students continue attending classes during heatwaves, their education is likely to still suffer.
Much of that impact disappeared in schools that had air conditioning, said study co-author Josh Goodman, an economist at Boston University. Children in Southeast Asia exposed to higher-than-average temperatures in utero and early in life obtained fewer years of schooling later in life, a 2019 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found.
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