The @ETFOeducators Building Better Schools continues to omit an important pillar of success: indoor environmental quality. Poor #ventilation with CO₂ above 1500 ppm has the cognitive impact of skipping breakfast and affects the entire classroom.
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Hi David, thank you for your advocacy! We are scrambling to try to convince our kid's teacher that CO2 that shoots up daily to 1500 or 3000 ppm is not conducive to learning (to say nothing of disease prevention). Do you have any tips to help us locate the best literature on this?
Asit @insideair.bsky.social probably has some of the research handy for the studies correlating high CO2 from occupants, and therefore low ventilation, with cognitive performance. There are also studies of elevated particulate mass and lower cognitive performance.
Thanks! There’s something recent from traffic safety engineering, as well as prepandemic work by Joseph Allen on officeworker productivity. At least our kid *isn’t* skipping his breakfast! And he doesn’t take off his Flo Mask indoors…. @flomask.bsky.social
In Canada, the provinces and territories have jurisdiction on indoor air quality.
New Brunswick premier Susan Holt had some IAQ measures in her election platform last year.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56508-3#data-availability
lower ventilation rates, higher CO2
New Brunswick premier Susan Holt had some IAQ measures in her election platform last year.