Fungus-infected schools: I am so much smarter when I can breathe! Not kidding; from experience. There are a number of studies showing the physical activity an

Fungus-infected schools: I am so much smarter when I can breathe! Not kidding; from experience. There are a number of studies showing the physical activity and good nutrition improve school performance. You can start here for nutrition studies (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18336680); http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18336680); the citations are also informative, as usual. Pretending there is no inborn ability gap is unnecessary when we have conclusively demonstrated that we can create gaps through environment. (Just put a poor kid in a rich school and their performance goes up dramatically, and put a middle-class kid in a poor school and their performance goes down.) It is irresponsible and not scientifically or rationally defensible to just throw up your hands and say poor kids are born dumb, so it's reasonable to have a 62% high school graduation rate in DC and an 85% rate in Massachusetts [1]. Average stats are a fine place to start to identify blatant differences in outcome. We're not at the point where inborn ability is making a big difference, honestly. [1] http://www.governing.com/gov-data/high-school-graduation-rates-by-state.html http://www.governing.com/gov-data/high-school-graduation-rat...