Schools shift as evidence mounts that later start times improve …
2014年10月30日 · And research findings will continue to help school boards and governments get on board with the change. With more than 27,000 public and private secondary schools in the United States, those efforts will take time. But the impact of later school start times is evident, and youth deserve the chance for better health, Meltzer said.
Young and sleep deprived - American Psychological Association …
According to the advocacy group Start School Later, hundreds of schools in the U.S. have shifted start times thanks to sleep research. A number of legislators have introduced related bills, including Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) whose ZZZ's to A's Act asks the secretary of education to conduct a comprehensive review of sleep times and health and ...
Early elementary school start times tougher on economically …
Another unexpected finding was higher rates of students repeating grades in schools with later start times. Every additional minute later a school started increased retention rates by 0.2 percent, the researchers found. “To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine student retention in relation to school start times, and it is ...
Improving Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: APA …
APA's Health Disparities Office has partnered with a multidisciplinary group of experts to compile resources on how best to eliminate preschool suspensions and expulsions, which disproportionately affect children of color, and keep our youngest learners in school. Later School Start Times Promote Adolescent Well-being
2014年6月16日 · don, 2007). On the basis of evidence that early school start times are harmful for adolescents, some school districts have chosen to push middle and high school start times later and make elementary school start times earlier to retain staggered busing strategies (Kirby, Maggi, & D’Angiulli, 2011). It is therefore critical to
Sleep deprivation may be undermining teen health
In adolescents, who are biologically driven to sleep longer and later than adults do, the effects of insufficient sleep are likely to be even more dramatic--so much so that some sleep experts contend that the nation's early high-school start times, increasingly common, are tantamount to …
School Year Means Sleep Challenges for Kids of All Ages
Dr. Buckhalt: When school is out for holidays and summers, children usually adopt a less strict schedule and their wake times are often much later, resulting in more sleep time. Transitions back to school pose some challenges on Mondays, but may be particularly difficult at …
America’s students are falling behind. Here’s how to reimagine the ...
2024年4月1日 · Delaying school start times so that teachers can get more sleep helps improve their daytime functioning (Wahlstrom, K. L., et al., Journal of School Health, Vol. 93, No. 2, 2023). Plenty of research shows that starting school later would benefit students, too, but policymakers and school boards rarely make changes.
People think ‘old age’ starts later than it used to, study finds
2024年4月22日 · The researchers found that compared with the earliest-born participants, later-born participants reported a later perceived onset of old age. For example, when participants born in 1911 were 65 years old, they set the beginning of old age at age 71. In contrast, participants born in 1956 said old age begins at age 74, on average, when they were 65.
threatening to the completion of high school at this stage and four major high school dropout categories begin to emerge (Balfanz, 2007): o Life events – dropout is prompted by something that happens to the student outside of school, e.g., teen pregnancy, foster care placement, high school mobility.