Later Start Times for Middle and High School

News

• 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

• 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.

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)