Hear From a Teacher: How Extreme Heat Affects Student Learning

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VideoSeptember 12, 2024 Sep 12, 2024

Hear From a Teacher: How Extreme Heat Affects Student Learning

In rural and low-income communities, inadequate school infrastructure fails to protect students from extreme heat, negatively affecting student attendance, engagement, and achievement.

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Policy Opportunities To Protect At-Risk Americans From Extreme Heat

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Policy Opportunities To Protect At-Risk Americans From Extreme Heat

This video is part of a summer 2024 series of products from the Center for American Progress that focuses on policy recommendations to address the needs of populations that are particularly vulnerable to extreme heat.

Jess Piper, former teacher and executive director of Blue Missouri, explains how inequitable school funding disproportionately exposes rural and low-income students to dangerous extreme heat conditions.

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Paige Shoemaker DeMio

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Hailey Gibbs

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Allie Schneider

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Policy Opportunities To Protect At-Risk Americans From Extreme Heat

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Policy Opportunities To Protect At-Risk Americans From Extreme Heat

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Hear From a Teacher: How Extreme Heat Affects Student Learning