Local Politics:Issues:Later Start Times for Middle and High School

News

 * Boston Globe: Vote set for later Natick high school start, by Justin A. Rice (Sept 17, 2014)
 * CNN: Doctors: Early school start times unhealthy for students, by Sara Cheshire (Aug 28, 2014)
 * New York Times: To Keep Teenagers Alert, Schools Let Them Sleep In, by Jan Hoffman (Mar 13, 2014)

Reports

 * Santiago Perez-Lloret, MD, PhD, Alejandro J. Videla, MD, Alba Richaudeau, MD, Daniel Vigo, MD, Malco Rossi, MD, Daniel P. Cardinali, MD, PhD, Daniel Perez-Chada, MD, On behalf of the Buenos Aires Sleep Disorders Study Group: A Multi-Step pathway Connecting Short Sleep Duration to Daytime Somnolence, Reduced Attention, and poor Academic performance: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study in Teenagers, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol. 9, No. 5, 2013.
 * Robert Daniel Vorona, MD, Mariana Szklo-Coxe, PhD, Andrew Wu, BA, Michael Dubik, MD, Yueqin Zhao, PhD, J. Catesby Ware, PhD: Dissimilar Teen Crash Rates in Two Neighboring Southeastern Virginia Cities with Different High School Start Times, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2011.
 * Brookings Institute: Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement: Start Times, Grade Configurations, and Teacher Assignments, by Brian A. Jacob and Jonah E. Rockoff (Sept 2011)
 * A’s from Zzzz’s? The Causal Effect of School Start Time on the Academic Achievement of Adolescents, by Scott E. Carrell, Teny Maghakian and James E. West, American Economic Journal 3 (3): 62–71 (2011)
 * Ronald E. Dahl, MD: The Consequences of Insufficient Sleep for Adolescents: Links Between Sleep and Emotional Regulation, Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 80, No. 05, January 1999, pp. 354-359.
 * Robert Daniel Vorona, MD, Mariana Szklo-Coxe, PhD, Andrew Wu, BA, Michael Dubik, MD, Yueqin Zhao, PhD, J. Catesby Ware, PhD: Dissimilar Teen Crash Rates in Two Neighboring Southeastern Virginia Cities with Different High School Start Times, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2011.
 * Judith A. Owens, MD, MPH, Katherine Belon, BA, Patricia Moss, PhD: Impact of Delaying School Start Time on Adolescent Sleep, Mood, and Behavior, Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010;164(7):608-614

Mailing List Threads

 * lex-tmma:
 * NYTimes: To Keep Teenagers Alert, Schools Let Them Sleep In (Mar 2014)
 * lexParents (requires registration):
 * Docs urge delayed school start times for teens (Aug 2014)
 * Re: H.S. student sleep & stress (Mar 2014)
 * H.S. student sleep & stress (Mar 2014)