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Air filters, Pollution and Student Achievement
★Michael Gilrane, New York University. This paper identifies the achievement impact of installing air filters in classrooms for the first time. -
2026-05-27Highline Forum future ready overview
Overview presentation for Highline Forum’s Future Ready initiative, outlining Highline Public Schools’ promise that every student is known by name, strength and need, and graduates prepared for the future they choose. Presents four key pillars: Culture of Belonging, Innovative Learning, Bilingual & Biliterate, and Future Ready. -
2026-05-27Highline forum future ready overview
Overview presentation for Highline Forum’s Future Ready initiative, outlining Highline Public Schools’ promise that every student is known by name, strength and need, and graduates prepared for the future they choose. Presents four key pillars: Culture of Belonging, Innovative Learning, Bilingual & Biliterate, and Future Ready. -
Airport University – Working with Airport Communities to Build Aviation Career Pathways
Airport University Working with Communities to Build Aviation Career Pathways Airport University provides career exploration, education and career-connected learning for career advancement. Through partnerships with Highline and South Seattle Colleges, we offer free, in-person college classes at SEA Airport. Our classes help SEA Airport employees and community members build skills in computers, customer service, communications -
The impact of noise on childhood cognitive development
Poor classroom acoustics: The invisible reason Johnny can’t read. Poor classroom acoustics create a negative learning environment for many students, especially those with hearing or learning difficulties. According to a report by David Lubman (“America’s Need for Standards and Guidelines to Ensure Satisfactory Classroom Acoustics”) “acoustical conditions in many classrooms are unsuitable for such tasks -
Treat air quality to safeguard buildings against COVID-19
By Gus Simonds Special to The Times Enough sweatpants and Zoom meetings already. Employees who have worked from home since March because of COVID-19 want to get back to the office to enjoy the face-to-face camaraderie and collaboration with mentors and teammates. Parents are anticipating getting their children back into the classroom. Winter is approaching, making -
Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits
$1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third. By Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesiasmatt@vox.com An emergency situation that turned out to be mostly a false alarm led a lot of schools in Los Angeles to install air filters, and something strange happened: Test scores went up. By a -
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Chronic Noise Exposure and Reading Deficits Cornell May 1997
ABSTRACT: First- and second-grade schoolchildren chronically exposed to aircraft noise have significant deficits in reading as indexed by a standardized reading test administered under quiet conditions. These findings indicate that the harmful effects of noise are related to chronic exposure rather than interference effects during the testing session itself. We also provide evidence that the