Fix School Buses to Improve Academic Performance — The Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 25, 2019

1. Want to improve academic performance for students? Fix their buses.
   by Wes Austin, Garth Heutel and Daniel Kreisman at The Brookings Institution
2. This piece of technology can transform thoughts into speech.
   by James Gallagher at the BBC
3. What forgiving student debt could do for economic growth.
   by Jeff Spross in the Week
4. Why are we drawn to cults?
   by Colin Dickey in the New Republic
5. A understanding of how we process tastes and smells could help reverse bad eating habits.
   by Leslie Stein at the Monell Chemical Senses Center

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