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Teen Employment Has Many Benefits
Here's some benefits to having an after school job, which a change in schedule could make difficult for high school aged students.
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Cell phones and screens are keeping your kid awake
Cell phones and other screens in the bedroom are associated with children losing sleep time and sleep quality, a new study says -- even when kids don't use them.
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Early Start times on Elementary Students Start Times
This research shows that earlier times could be tough on kids.
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Facing Uproar Over New Start Times, Boston's School District Defends Itself
This article describes a district who changed times, but it didn't go so well with the community.
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Are elementary school start times too early for young children?
This one considers the impact of start times for younger kids and compares the effects across socioeconomic groups.
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How to Cope with Seasonal Affective Disorder
This resource could be useful to anyone trying to argue that this change is going to be a problem for our daylight hours.
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Changing School Start Times Has Ripple Effects — And Those Ripples Could Sink Many Familie
A well articulated perspective against changing school start times.
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Schools Start Too Early
From the CDC. This is their official opinion on school start times.
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Recommended Amount of Sleep
From the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
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Let Them Sleep
Published by the American Academy of Pediatrics
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ASD Brochure about start times
Has all of the three scenarios.
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ASD hears concerns over school start times
KTVA Broadcast that we watched in class
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Local teens welcome new school start times
This article has testimony from high school aged students from different viewpoints.
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The Pros and Cons of Later School Start Times: Will Extra Zzz's Bring Teens More A's? - NE
We read this one in class together. This is a good place to get started.
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Why Are Parents Afraid of Later School Start Times?
This article talks about easing parent's and student's fear of change.
theatlantic.com -
The Economic Case For Letting Teenagers Sleep a Little Later
A parent's perspective on the issue of school start times from the economic standpoint.
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Allowing students a later start in the morning would save billions
A Newsela adapted article explaining the results of the RAND corporation's findings.
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Start high school later for better academic outcomes
This resource references many complex studies and summarizes them so they are readable.
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Seattle changed school bell times to let teens sleep in. Here's what happened
The results of Seattles changes in start times.
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Starting School Later Would Boost the Economy
This page has key findings and details and links to the the full analysis. The full analysis is 57 pages. See the Newsela Article for a condensed version.
rand.org
