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Oct 30, 2014 · Though comprehensive national statistics on school start times are not available, it is common for American public high schools to begin their instructional day between 7–8 a.m. Research has shown that these early bell times are responsible for the discrepancy between how much sleep teens need and how much sleep they get. 9 When school systems h...
- History of School Timing
- Here’s What Research Shows
- Biology of Teenage Brain
- What Happens with Less Sleep
- What Changes with Later Start time?
- Challenges and Benefits
In the earliest days of American education, all students attended a single school with a single starting time. In fact, as late as 1910, half of all children attended one-room schools. As schools and districts grew in sizein the late 1890s-1920s, staggered starting times became the norm across the country. In cities and large towns, high school stu...
Research findings during the 1980s started to cast a new light on teenagers’ sleep patterns. Researcher Mary Carskadon and others at Brown University found that the human brain has a marked shift in its sleep/wake pattern during adolescence. Researchers around the world corroborated those findings. At the onset of puberty, nearly all humans (and mo...
So, what exactly happens to the teenage brain during the growth years? In the teens, the secretion of the sleep hormone melatonin begins at about 10:45 p.m. and continues until about 8 a.m. What this means is that teenagers are unable to fall asleep until melatonin secretion begins and they are also not able to awaken until the melatonin secretion ...
Studies on sleep in general, and on sleep in teens in particular, have revealed the serious negative consequences of lack of adequate sleep. Teens who are sleep-deprived – defined as obtaining less than eight hours per night – are significantly more likely to use cigarettes, drugs and alcohol. The incidence of depression among teens significantly r...
Results from schools that switched to a late start time are encouraging. Not only does the teens’ use of drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol decline, their academic performance improvessignificantly with later start time. The Edina (Minnesota) School District superintendent and school board was the first district in the countryto make the change. The de...
However, there are many schools and districts across the U.S. that are resisting delaying the starting time of their high schools. There are many reasons. Issues such as changing transportation routes and altering the timing for other grade levels often head the list of factors making the later start difficult. Schools are also concerned about afte...
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May 23, 2023 · According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, children ages 6–12 need between 9 and 12 hours of sleep at night, and teenagers ages 13–18 need between 8 and10 hours each night. However, studies have demonstrated that most American adolescents are not getting enough sleep .
Aug 9, 2018 · Science demonstrates that when young people begin puberty, their biological clocks shift; they typically become sleepy later—as late as 11 p.m.—and need to sleep later in the morning to get the...
Aug 26, 2022 · Education. Home. 4 Benefits of Later School Start Times. Later school start times bring more sleep and improved health and academic success for teens. By Anayat Durrani. |. Aug. 26, 2022,...
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Aug 16, 2022 · 6 minute read. Getty Images. By Jamie Ducharme. August 16, 2022 12:43 PM EDT. C alifornia teenagers can snooze a little later this year, thanks to a newly implemented law that says most high...
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