Study links later middle, high school start times to better student achievement
Teens slept 45 minutes more a night when their school district tried a new scheduling strategy
https://ctmirror.org/2015/08/06/most-middle-and-high-schools-start-too-early-study-says/
https://today.uconn.edu/2017/11/influencing-school-start-times-science/#
Los Angeles Times - "Sleep Education" Must Play a Role in Discussion about School Start Times (November 14, 2017)
Los Angeles Times - Kids Need More Sleep, but Forcing Schools to Push Back Start Times Is not the Answer (September 10, 2017)
Washington Post - Letting Teens Sleep In Would Save the Country Roughly $9 Billion a Year (September 1, 2017)
Wall Street Journal - Schools Start How Early? How Families Juggle Mornings that Vary Widely (August 31, 2016)
Washington Post - Doctors Urge Later Start Times for Teens (September 5, 2014)
Washington Post - Blue Light from Electronic Devices Disturbs Sleep, Especially for Teenagers (September 7, 2014)
Washington Post - The Big Number: How 48 Minutes of Extra Sleep Helped Teens (August 16, 2019)
Los Angeles Times - Do Later School Starts Help? More Research Is Needed (September 22, 2019)
Hartrford Courant - Why We Need to Let Our Children Sleep (June 16, 2019)
Wall Street Journal - Teens Snooze, Grade-School Students Lose (September 26, 2019)
Education Week - High School Naps May Boost Learning for Sleep-Deprived Teenagers (August 1, 2019)
Pediatric Sleep Physician from Yale University Dr. Craig Canapari's website
Center for Disease Control and Prevention - "Schools Start Too Early"
National Sleep Foundation "Backgrounder: Later School Start Times"
US News - "Parents, Educators: Later High School Start Times Yield Mixed Results"
Psychology Today - "Starting School Later is not Enough"
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - "Later school start times for supporting the education, health, and well-being of high school students"
NCBI - Longitudinal Outcomes of Start Time Delay on Sleep, Behavior, and Achievement in High School
Cochrane - "Later school start times for supporting the education, health, and well-being of high school students"
American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement - "School Start Times for Adolescents"
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