See-Through Classrooms Could Combat Nearsightedness

In China, some students are probably finding it a lot more difficult to pay attention: Their classroom has essentially been transformed into a giant cube of windows. The decision to bathe students in sunlight at one particular school in China isn't some new-age teaching methodology, though. It's an experimental attempt to preserve children's' vision. In the last few decades there's been a dramatic increase in the global rates of myopia, or nearsightedness. In South Korea, for example,