A major, multi-state study conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linked
later high school start times to significant decreases in teen substance abuse, depression, and consumption of caffeinated drinks.
The Park City school board has determined the change will not happen this coming fall, but it has committed to an ongoing process of studying costs and other logistical changes needed to implement
a later high school start time, a practice a growing body of evidence says is developmentally appropriate for teens.
In November 2013, citing a a national trend for
later high school start times, Garland Independent School District School Board President Larry Glick asked to place the issue of delaying the district's 7:30 a.m. high school start time on the school board's meeting agenda.
The mother of two high school students, Teresa Thompson, protested that the district «already has one of
the latest high school start times in the state of New York -LSB-.]
Not exact matches
We first wrote about After
School, a social network created specifically for high - school students, when it launched and started gaining traction in late
School, a social network created specifically for
high -
school students, when it launched and started gaining traction in late
school students, when it launched and
started gaining traction in
late 2014.
In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in
high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years
later, he
started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.
Later this month, FloSports will stream live coverage of USA Football's 7 - on - 7 National Championship Series tournaments, which feature top U.S.
high school players, while the streaming service will also stream match - ups between some of the country's top - ranked
high school football programs,
starting in
late August.
How fashion designer Marc Ecko
started earning $ 1000 a week in
high school with his own clothing business, and
later grew it into an empire.
But seniors fill out college applications and the reality slowly
starts sinking in that this whole
high school thing — sports and all — is going to end sooner rather than
later.
In an experiment in the Minneapolis area, when
schools started later, students felt less sleepy, got
higher grades, had fewer depressive feelings, fewer conflicts, and less bullying — and SAT scores went up.
How this relates to the comments above:» Paly... been a Challenge Success poster
school for as long as I can remember: TA, block scheduling, pre-break finals, many class projects, homework free days, now homework time limits, a
school climate coordinator, more de-laned subjects, fewer APs / student than peer
high schools I've read, and a
later start / no zero period that promotes sleep.
Later start - times: «The case study for this topic is Menlo - Atherton
High School, which several years ago changed its school - start time from 7:55 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. (and 9:25 a.m. on Thursdays to allow for staff meet
School, which several years ago changed its
school - start time from 7:55 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. (and 9:25 a.m. on Thursdays to allow for staff meet
school -
start time from 7:55 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. (and 9:25 a.m. on Thursdays to allow for staff meetings).
Parents and teachers gathered at Annandale
High School Tuesday for the county's first «Sleep Night,» where a sleep expert presented findings from her study on a school that moved to a later start
School Tuesday for the county's first «Sleep Night,» where a sleep expert presented findings from her study on a
school that moved to a later start
school that moved to a
later start times.
Community
High School District 117 has 24 «
late -
start» Mondays.
Another winter storm is heading our way
starting later tonight, Sidney
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Owens believes her data support
later start times for middle
school and
high school, to match the natural shift in adolescents» circadian pattern toward the eveningness chronotype.
The American Academy of Pediatrics issued recommendations in 2014 calling for a
school start time of 8:30 a.m. or
later for middle and
high schools.
«
Later start times better for high school students: Poor self - regulation in teens linked to circadian rhythms: Findings support later start times for middle schools and high schools.&r
Later start times better for
high school students: Poor self - regulation in teens linked to circadian rhythms: Findings support
later start times for middle schools and high schools.&r
later start times for middle
schools and
high schools.»
Later, I
started high school in a science orientated
school.
I
started horseback riding my sophomore year of
high school (way too
late to do anything cool as a junior rider like go to Maclay finals or show in Florida... ignoring the fact that I never had the funds to do the big shows in the first place).
Those lipstick shades remind me a lot of the colours I covetted in the
late 90s, when I was
starting high school - colours I now look back at and think, why did they ever wear those, they were so dark and dismal!
«There was a moderate and statistically significant difference between students» hours of sleep at earlier and
later starting high schools... this translates to an increase of 83.4 minutes of sleep for students at
schools with
later start times,» the report says.
The report
Later school start times for supporting the education, health, and well - being of high school students, published in December 2017, looked at the results of multiple intervention studies involving starting lessons later in the mor
Later school start times for supporting the education, health, and well - being of
high school students, published in December 2017, looked at the results of multiple intervention studies involving
starting lessons
later in the mor
later in the morning.
In
high school, they might not have seen their friend all day, and a few minutes to catch up at the
start of the class means they won't be disruptive
later in the period.
It's difficult to know exactly how this disconnect between teenagers» optimal sleep times and
school schedules affects their classroom performance because
school districts that
start high schools later might be better - resourced or otherwise support students better than do those that
start high schools earlier in the day.
Of course, increased sleep is not the only possible reason
later -
starting middle -
school students have
higher test scores.
Fewer absences therefore may also explain why
later -
starting students have
higher test scores: students who have an early
start time miss more
school and could perform worse on standardized tests as a result.
If that were the case, then I might find that
schools with
later start times have
higher test scores, even if
start times themselves had no causal effect.
School districts that
start elementary
schools later and
high schools earlier could potentially swap these schedules without major transportation disruptions.
As one example, in a very useful recent policy proposal, Jacob and Rockoff propose three low - cost ways to organize
schools to maximize student performance: combining elementary and middle
schools into single buildings; optimizing teacher assignment policies; and
starting school later in the day for middle and
high school students.
The 40 students, mostly juniors and seniors at the 900 - student Marysville
High School, are creating a documentary on the town, located on the St. Clair River northeast of Detroit,
starting from its early days as a logging community and chronicling its
later automobile and ship - building industries.
Besides Peiser, who
started Boston Collegiate Charter
School in 1998, just after earning his master's in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy
School, there was Doug Lemov, a founder of Academy of the Pacific Rim (also in Boston) in 1997 and
later a best - selling author (Teach Like a Champion); Evan Rudall and John King of Roxbury Prep in Boston (Rudall is now CEO of Zearn, a new educational technology nonprofit, and King is commissioner of education for New York State); and Paul Bambrick - Santoyo, then managing director of North Star's middle and
high schools in Newark (and
later author of Driven by Data and Leverage Leadership).
* This lack of synchrony leads to bizarre situations, such as an arts - keen kid finding a program that's right for him at one level but only in science, or maybe nothing, at the next level and youngsters welcomed into «gifted» program as
late as ninth grade who find no openings in suitable
high schools starting in tenth.
Some
high schools have postponed their
start times because research shows that adolescents are naturally groggy in the morning, and alert
later in the day.
He's part of a team tracking 32,000
high school students in a year - long study to see if
starting the
school day
later has an impact on student achievement levels.
Kenneth Dragseth, superintendent of
schools in Edina, Minnesota, says that students in his
school district who attend
schools that
start later have
higher grades than do students in
schools with earlier
start times.
Because AAP recommends
school start times of 8:30 a.m. or
later for both middle
schools and
high schools, the analyses in this report include public middle
schools,
high schools, and
schools with combined grades.
High schools started seeking accreditation through regional nonprofits in the
late 1800s to provide colleges with a way to determine if their students were equipped for
higher education.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that middle and
high schools start at 8:30 a.m. or
later.
High school students will
start school later in a move designed to prioritize student health over district logistics.
Students whose middle
schools started one hour
later when they were in 8th grade continue to score 2 percentile points
higher in both math and reading when tested in grade 10.
«If you're
starting the
high school kids
later, you're
starting elementary kids earlier.
(Osceola
school leaders consider changing
high school start times (Sept. 10, 2015) WFTV; Jackson, Osceola District looks for solutions to early
school start times (Sept. 9, 2015) Osceola News - Gazette;
Later Osceola
school start times could cost millions (Setp.
Barrington
High School students will begin their day at 8:30 a.m., 70 minutes later than they did prior to 2017 - 18 school year, and end the day at 3:21 p.m. Middle school students now start more than an hour later, beginning their day at 9 a.m. and ending it at 3:55
School students will begin their day at 8:30 a.m., 70 minutes
later than they did prior to 2017 - 18
school year, and end the day at 3:21 p.m. Middle school students now start more than an hour later, beginning their day at 9 a.m. and ending it at 3:55
school year, and end the day at 3:21 p.m. Middle
school students now start more than an hour later, beginning their day at 9 a.m. and ending it at 3:55
school students now
start more than an hour
later, beginning their day at 9 a.m. and ending it at 3:55 p.m.)
The Montrose Early Childhood Center
starts at 9 a.m. (
Start School Later SOMA,
Start Columbia
High School Later to Reduce Sleep Deprivation in Teens (Feb. 1, 2016) Tap into SOMA.)
The press reports that
high school students supported the
later start times but were concerned about the impact on afterschool programs and their ability to care for younger siblings.
Elementary
schools begin at 8:10 a.m. or
later, except Newport Elementary, which begins at 7:55 a.m. (Roelofs, What happened when one Minnesota
school district let
high schoolers sleep in (May 31, 2016) Bridge Magazine; Wente, Study: More sleep proving beneficial for District 833 students (Jan. 9, 2014) Woodbury Bull.; Lonetree,
Start time changes paying off for South Washington County
schools (Jan. 4, 2014) Star Tribune; Post, Study: Exhausted teens benefit from
later morning
school starts (Dec. 6, 2013) MPR News [includes audio].)
Later start and end times for Yuma Elementary
School District 1 and Yuma Union High School District campuses were approved for the upcoming 2015 - 2016 school year, with the high school moving bell time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as
School District 1 and Yuma Union
High School District campuses were approved for the upcoming 2015 - 2016 school year, with the high school moving bell time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as w
High School District campuses were approved for the upcoming 2015 - 2016 school year, with the high school moving bell time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as
School District campuses were approved for the upcoming 2015 - 2016
school year, with the high school moving bell time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as
school year, with the
high school moving bell time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as w
high school moving bell time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as
school moving bell time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as well.
Option 3: Eliminate three - tiered busing and have the district's 8
high schools on their own
later start time.
Recognizing that
later starts are «best» for
high school students, the district is considering scheduling elementary students for first tier busing and secondary
school students for the third tier.