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"The evidence continues to pile up: if you don’t hustle your teen out of bed and into the classroom early, they’ll get more sleep and do better academically.
The “Sleepmore in Seattle” study published this week in the Science Advances journal joins a pile of similar research in Canada and the United States in support of later school start times.
The crux of the issue? Most teenagers like to stay up late and sleep in late, a habit that tends to leave them chronically underslept and their brains less than fully functional when the school bell rings every morning.
So when the Seattle School District made plans to bump back its start time by an hour, researchers studied how high schoolers fared before and after. The result was more sleep, better attendance, and a 4.5 per cent increase in the students’ median grades."
Via John Evans
