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Essilor and Stanford University to study link between visual correction and school success in China
Release date:2012/8/2 Source: ccap
In order to fully raise awareness of importance of visual correction. A new research is being sponsored by Essilor and conducted by the Rural Education Action Project (REAP), a partnership between Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Center For Chinese Agricultural Policy. Thousands of third and four-year olds in hundreds of schools in rural Northwest China are to be part of a research project to show the impact of eye care and eyeglasses on educational performance. Parents, teachers and eye care clinicians are involved in the research, which also seeks to address the cultural bias in rural China that wearing eyeglasses causes a child’s vision to deteriorate.For more information, please refer to the attached file.Essilor Press Release REAP China.pdf