Classrooms

Air filters in classrooms reduce sick days by more than 10 per cent

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Air filters could be a simple way of boosting school attendance Arne Dedert/dpa/Alamy Live News School attendance increased by 1.3 days per pupil per year when five elementary schools in Milan, Italy, introduced air filters into classrooms, in the first randomised controlled trial of its kind. “It’s the first experimental evidence,” says Stefania Renna at … Read more

Classrooms decorated like woodlands seem to slow myopia progression

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A classroom decorated as part of a myopia trial in Lijiang in Yunnan province, China Weizhong Lan/ AIER Academy of Opthalmology, Central South University Myopia has long been linked to spending too much time inside, but new research suggests that just simulating the outdoors in classrooms could help ward off the condition in children. Short-sightedness, … Read more