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Light Helps Pupils Learn!Learning rates were 26 percent higher in reading and 20 percent higher in math in rooms with the most natural light, researchers found.

Light Helps Pupils Learns
SACRAMENTO, California....Can a few beams of sunshine help lessons soak in?

A new study, one of the largest ever done on natural light in schools, suggests children learn faster and do better on standardized tests in classrooms with more daylight.

Learning rates were 26 percent higher in reading and 20 percent higher in math in rooms with the most natural light, researchers found.

A companion study found that sales were 40 percent higher in stores with skylights, compared with almost identical stores in the same chain without skylights.

Psychologists and energy efficiency experts alike have long suspected that something as simple as sunshine may help people work more efficiently, learn more, call in sick less often and sell more.

The research, conducted by an energy consulting firm for the California Board for Energy Efficiency and Pacific Gas and Electric Co., is one of the largest and most rigorous attempts to test those suspicions.

"My guess is this will make a huge impact on school design in the next few years", said Arthur Rosenfeld, a senior adviser for energy efficiency for the U.S. Energy Department.

While stressing he hadn't yet read the studies, Rosenfeld described them as "a star group", and said their level of certainty is "very, very impressive.."
From the Star Bulletin in Honolulu, Hawaii