A Girl’s Grades Drop Every Summer — There’s an Alarming Explanation. - WhoWhatWhy

A Girl’s Grades Drop Every Summer — There’s an Alarming Explanation. - WhoWhatWhy

Every summer when extreme heat arrives in Dhakale, India, Pramila Waghmare notices her children’s grades drop, only to improve again when winter arrives. After three years of this pattern, she asked her neighbors and learned that heat waves seemed to be hurting the academic performance of at least 40 schoolchildren in her hamlet with a total population of less than 1,000. Schoolteachers told her that students in many nearby villages in Maharasht…