However, most found that delaying a school's start time resulted in
students getting more sleep.
A new study in SLEEP, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that delaying school start times results in
students getting more sleep, and feeling better, even within societies where trading sleep for academic success is common.
Parents are lobbying to get the start of the school day at Annandale High pushed back so that
students get more sleep and can be more focused in class.
As of this writing, this district webpage (near page bottom) notes additional «advantages» to the later start time, including coordination of classes with other districts, research showing
students get more sleep and have more success in school, and data suggesting students are less likely to be tardy.
Not exact matches
She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that
students who started school at 8:30 a.m.
got almost an hour
more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.
We train everyday except Sunday, we eat only the meals provided by Spitz» training facility, and we
get more sleep than we ever did during our time as
student - athletes.
A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that female
students, racial / ethnic minorities, and
students of lower socioeconomic status are particularly affected, with teens in these categories less likely to report regularly
getting seven or
more hours of
sleep each night compared with their male counterparts, non-Hispanic white teenagers, and
students of higher socioeconomic status, respectively.
Students in the 8th, 10th and 12th grades of a nationally representative survey of
more than 270,000 adolescents from 1991 to 2012 reported how often they
get seven or
more hours of
sleep.
Though obvious from start to finish - it's little
more than a Public Service Announcement - there are a few moments in this that are thought - provoking: how these starlets balance their «jobs» and personal relationships (Silguero's boyfriend is clearly bothered by her
sleeping with so many other people), how they regard each other (none of them likes Belle Knox, the famous Duke
student who turned to porn) and especially how they view the difference between «on - screen performing» and «real - life romance» (I found the scene of the one girl awkwardly trying to
get a male waiter's number to be completely adorable).
The vast majority of
students, even those in elementary school, claimed that rigorous study habits and test preparation impinged on their ability to
get more than seven hours of
sleep each night.
The typical explanation for why later start times might increase academic achievement is that by starting school later,
students will
get more sleep.
Studies have shown that
sleep - deprived
students are
more likely to
get poorer grades than
students who
sleep longer, and are
more likely to
get depressed.
Together, we can all
get more sleep — and that, research shows, is very good for all of our brains and for each
student's learning.
Chan also reported her
students were 2.5 times
more likely than the
students in the control school (which apparently begins at 9 a.m.) to
get nine hours
sleep.
Research has shown that
students who do not
get enough
sleep are
more likely to misbehave in school and have lower academic achievement than their peers with healthy
sleeping habits.
Tweens to college
students are
getting in on the action with
more versatile devices like this new one from Fitbit, the Surge, that functions as a watch and a GPS and heart rate monitor for the
student athletes in the family, and it monitors
sleep too which can be a bonus if you're concerned about it.